#googlescholar — Public Fediverse posts

So Google Scholar now bars you from accessing search term results or papers from your Scholar alerts if youre on a VPN server. In every browser, with or without blocked trackers etc. I have to use a Brave Tor window to access Google Scholar. I am not turning off the VPN just to please Google.

Extractive tech practices are now at epidemic level.

#academia #academicchatter #google #googlescholar #vpn #tor

@cxli For context: the #acmdl frictions make systematic reviews painful. It feels borderline unusable as a research tool and is incomplete.

#googlescholar is more complete, but the accuracy of the metadata drops off. I've found that historic searches (e.g., <1950) are mostly incorrectly dated.

I was curious whether this is corroborated by research and came across: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7079055/
...

"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
#OpenAccess #GoogleScholar #Licensing #Negotiation #OpenAlex #Unpaywall

Buenos días!

Hoy me despierto descrubriendo que google scholar ha vetado las VPNs. ¿sabéis de alguna alternativa? Al google scholar digo, tengo pendiendte la desgooglezación :).

#buenosdías #google #vpn #academia #ciencia #googlescholar

So, there we go... #GoogleScholar has started blocking my beloved #ProtonVPN 😡

To be honest, I did need one more reason to stop using even this Google service. I am sorry that it came this far... 🤯

#google #science #literature #vpn #proton #degoogle

2/ #KI kann für so viele Zwecke eingesetzt werden. Die ist so extrem hilfreich und kann viele Abläufe vereinfachen.

Ich wünsche mir ein KI-Tool, dass mir automatisch Ampeln, Fußgängerüberwege, Hydranten und Hydrantinnen und Fahrräder auf Bildern von #googlescholar anzeigt.

Das nervt so! Jetzt will #googlescholar auch noch Fahrräder oder Ampeln markiert kriegen.

Erst haben die SPAMer Email kaputt gemacht, jetzt machen die KI-Fuzzis den Rest vom Internet unzugänglich.

Ich muss jetzt vielleicht zehnmal am Tag beweisen, dass ich ein Mensch bin. Und nein, ich mache keine Cookies für Google an.

#googleisevil außer Google Scholar natürlich. =:-)

Browser-Addon "Google Scholar OA Status" by Lukas Wallrich
https://github.com/LukasWallrich/gs_oa_status
"A Chrome extension [also working in Edge] that displays open access (OA) status badges on Google Scholar search results, helping researchers quickly identify articles that are legally available to everyone (e.g. for inclusion in reading lists, or use as examples in research software)."
#GoogleScholar #OpenAccess #tools
[via @aufdroeseler via https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukas-wallrich_forrt-openaccess-researchtools-activity-7422977894047612928-QZRC/]

@hfalcke I’m glad we/you keep paying Google (Scholar) with our data for this “service”…

#GoogleScholar

Som forsker irriterer det mig, at jeg hele tiden sidder og laver søgninger i Google Scholar. Uden i øvrigt at være fanatisk ville jeg gerne have et brugbart alternativ. Forslag?

#DanmarkSkifter #Google #GoogleScholar

What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”? – Substack- Aaron Tay

What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”?

When we say “AI-powered search engine,” we’re conflating at least four different things—and your concerns about one may not apply to another.

By Aaron Tay, Dec 27, 2025

I’ve been watching the reactions to Google Scholar Labs with considerable interest. The responses range from enthusiastic embrace to outright rejection. One response particularly intrigued me—someone mentioned they were initially reluctant to try because they’d heard it was “AI-powered” but became more interested when they read my review and realized what that actually meant (they expected it to generate answers to questions when all it did was do better ranking).

Another interesting puzzle was when I noticed some library guides listing Semantic Scholar as “Semantic/Neural Search” when a technical look at their main retrieval method reveals the main search is still largely lexical search.

While one can understand and agree with the listing of Semantic Scholar as “AI powered” due to clear AI features like TLDR, doing the same for Lens.org and OpenAlex is a much harder sell, because they not only just do keyword search but they lack the obvious AI features of Semantic Scholar.

It’s made me realise we might all be talking past each other because we haven’t actually defined what we mean.

“AI-powered search engine” is a handy catch-all term used by vendors, but it actually hides a diverse set of systems and functionality. In this post, I’ll dissect the different ways academic search can be “AI-powered” so you can decide which types actually cross the line for you.

I am going to argue that we often mean at least 4 different things when we call something “AI-powered search”

• Level 1: Post-Retrieval AI Features
• Level 2: Going beyond Lexical Search with Semantic Search
• Level 3: LLMs for Retrieval and/or Relevance Ranking
• Level 4: Synthesis and Generation Across Papers
• Level 0??: Use of AI to extract, cluster, or organise metadata used for retrieval

Levels here may not be the right framing, as the four different categories are largely orthogonal (except maybe Level 3 is a subset of level 2), but they map to most common academic search products (e.g. Level 4 is usually Deep Research) and higher levels generally reflect higher risk and greater amount of pushback from librarians.

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The Spectrum of AI in Search

Level 1: Post-Retrieval AI Features

Does “AI-powered search engine” mean “AI” that impacts the search process only? Not necessarily. There’s a whole category of AI features that don’t affect the search results you get at all. Things like optional summarisation of individual items (e.g., AI Insights on Ebscohost databases), translation tools, or text-to-speech features.

These are post-retrieval conveniences. You search, you get your results list (however that list was generated), and then you have the option to use AI to help you process what you found. The search itself? Unchanged.

In theory, if you don’t like these features, you can ignore them.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: What Do We Actually Mean by “AI-Powered Search”?

#GoogleScholar bietet zur #Literaturrecherche jetzt auch #KI an ...
Ein Test:
https://www.profi-wissen.de/literaturrecherche-mit-ki-scholar-labs/

Fascinating! Not even #Google's own product #GoogleScholar is setup correctly to show up properly in the search results.
#SEO #AcademicChatter #PhDLife

Labs Google Scholar - #AI powered research tool, outil de recherche alimenté par l' #IA développé par #googlescholar - vient d'être déployé pour le grand public

Oh, boy. #GoogleScholar is experimenting with blending AI with your favorite literature search engine. I worry that the results you get are not an improvement over standard search, and the process makes it harder to teach students how to do good searches.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_labs/search

Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era - Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-labs… #AI #GoogleScholar

Scholar Labs Early Review: Goo...

Larry Ferlazzo: Google Unveils “Scholar Labs” For Academic Research – Seems “Meh”. “Google has unveiled ‘Scholar Labs,’ an AI tool designed to assist academic research. It’s part of what appears to be an unending search for ways to make their AI useful. They haven’t been that successful in the past, and I’m less-than-impressed with this new tool.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/20/larry-ferlazzo-google-unveils-scholar-labs-for-academic-research-seems-meh/

Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/schola… #AI #GoogleScholar

AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Google Scholar Labs!
https://www.infodocket.com/2025/11/18/ai-google-scholar-say-hello-to-google-scholar-labs/m #scholcomm #libraries #LLMs #GoogleScholar

google scholar blog: "Mark it up! Highlight and comment in Scholar PDF Reader "

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/mark-it-up-highlight-and-comment-in.html

#google #literature #academia #googlescholar

Google Scholar Is Doomed

https://hannahshelley.neocities.org/blog/2025_08_13_GoogleScholar?_hsmi=379136541

#GoogleScholar #Research #searchengine #ScholComm #AcademicResearch #AI

#googlescholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors | Nature
A browser extension called GScholarLens provides a weighted #metric , called the Scholar h-index (Sh-index), which accounts for a researcher’s position in author lists, giving corresponding (or last) authors the highest weighting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

#SteadySupporter #Artikelupdate

Immer häufiger tauchen KI-generierte Arbeiten in wissenschaftlichen Archiven auf – oft mit manipulativem Potenzial.

Besonders heikel wird es, wenn politische Themen oder Gesundheit im Fokus stehen. Die Einschleusung unseriöser Veröffentlichungen in den Wissenschaftsbetrieb stellt ein großes Risiko für die wissenschaftliche Integrität dar.

https://tino-eberl.de/missbrauch-kuenstlicher-intelligenz/wachsende-gefahr-durch-ki-generierte-fake-studien-in-der-wissenschaft/

#Wissenschaft #KI #Desinformation #GoogleScholar #Studienqualität #Wissenschaftskommunikation

#RamónFlecha, el catedrático acusado de abusos, elimina miles de #citas para no ser borrado del #ranking del #CSIC
El perfil de Flecha se atribuía 25.490 citas, cuando una búsqueda en #GoogleScholar filtrando en la autoría por su nombre solo producía 14.997
El catedrático ha borrado miles de citas en pocos minutos para evitar ser expulsado del ranking del CSIC
https://www.infolibre.es/igualdad/ramon-flecha-catedratico-acusado-abusos-elimina-miles-citas-no-borrado-ranking-csic_1_2067283.html

#RamónFlecha, el catedrático acusado de abusos, elimina miles de #citas para no ser borrado del #ranking del #CSIC
El perfil de Flecha se atribuía 25.490 citas, cuando una búsqueda en #GoogleScholar filtrando en la autoría por su nombre solo producía 14.997
El catedrático ha borrado miles de citas en pocos minutos para evitar ser expulsado del ranking del CSIC
https://www.infolibre.es/igualdad/ramon-flecha-catedratico-acusado-abusos-elimina-miles-citas-no-borrado-ranking-csic_1_2067283.html

#RamónFlecha, el catedrático acusado de abusos, elimina miles de #citas para no ser borrado del #ranking del #CSIC
El perfil de Flecha se atribuía 25.490 citas, cuando una búsqueda en #GoogleScholar filtrando en la autoría por su nombre solo producía 14.997
El catedrático ha borrado miles de citas en pocos minutos para evitar ser expulsado del ranking del CSIC
https://www.infolibre.es/igualdad/ramon-flecha-catedratico-acusado-abusos-elimina-miles-citas-no-borrado-ranking-csic_1_2067283.html

#ProQuest + #GoogleScholar = scam? Exhibit #123:

- Researcher publishes article in journal, using #CC BY.
- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images.
- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements?
- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL.

Aaargh.

On #LabourDay2025, I wish to share that my #research work has now surpassed 5000 #citations on #GoogleScholar #metrics. Grateful to all peers who have engaged over years https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=zRABPGQAAAAJ&hl=en #ResearchImpact #DigitalCitizenship #UrbanAI #SmartCities #AI #DigitalInclusion #Web3

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/
"Roughly two-thirds of the retrieved papers were found to have been produced, at least in part, through undisclosed, potentially deceptive use of GPT. The majority (57%) of these questionable papers dealt with policy-relevant subjects (i.e., environment, health, computing), susceptible to influence operations. Most were available in several copies on different domains (e.g., social media, archives, and repositories).
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of #GPT to (mass-)produce #fake, scientific #publications. First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the #research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and jeopardize the integrity of the scientific record. A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with #AI tools and is also optimized to be retrieved by publicly available academic search engines, particularly #GoogleScholar. However small, this possibility and awareness of it risks undermining the basis for #trust in #scientificKnowledge and poses serious societal risks."
#science #AIEthics

GPT-Fabricated Scientific Papers Flood Google Scholar, Scientists Say

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/computerscience/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-google-scholar-13580.html

#science #sciencenews #sciencecommunication #sciencecomm #scicomm #scicom #sciencejournalism #google #googlescholar #technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #chatgpt #generativeAI #scientificresearch #scientificpublishing #ScientificStudy #misinformation #disinformation

Have you ever wondered if there’s a #Fediverse alternative to platforms like #GoogleScholar or even publishers and hosts like Academia.edu? I believe the academic world is overdue for a revolution, which necessarily requires a move toward #decentralization and #openaccess to knowledge. Imagine a search/indexing engine that’s not just a tool for finding research but part of an entire ecosystem that replaces profit-driven publishers and centralized repositories.

#knowledge #openedu #university

University of Borås: AI-fabricated “junk science” floods Google Scholar. “AI-generated research is a threat, both in terms of society’s knowledge and public trust in science. This was the conclusion made by the researchers behind the study that recently identified over a hundred suspected AI-generated articles in the Google Scholar search engine.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/14/university-of-boras-ai-fabricated-junk-science-floods-google-scholar/

🌟#Academic #Metrics

4,730 #citations on #GoogleScholar

728 in 2024
#hindex 32
#i10index 66

Grateful for #coauthors #funders #editors #AI #RegionalStudies #SocialInnovation #SmartCities #Decentralization

📈https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=zRABPGQAAAAJ&hl=en

🔖https://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=2300911&redirectFrom=true #OpenAccess

🌟#Academic milestone:

4,698 #citations on #GoogleScholar
Including 700 in 2024!
#hindex: 32
#i10index: 66

Grateful for #coauthors #funders #editors #AI #RegionalStudies #SocialInnovation #SmartCities #Decentralization

📚 https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=zRABPGQAAAAJ&hl=en

📊 https://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=2300911&redirectFrom=true

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Metrics #Assessment #Evaluation #Transfer #Impact
@anthropology @economics @politicalscience @politicaltheory @geography

Good news in our preprint about #polarization:

Demand for BIPARTISAN #news analysis was strong!

People in the #US preferred fact-checking teams that engaged in #AdversarialCollaboration at least as much as copartisan and/or professional teams.

Follow the manuscript or authors on #GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=1017561778629165218

If you prefer a link directly to our preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gp9w7

#journalism #socialMedia #decisionScience #collectiveIntelligence #socialPsychology #politicalPsychology #epistemology #xPhi

[veille] "La pression pour publier et être cité est préjudiciable au comportement des scientifiques” =>
https://maisouvaleweb.fr/de-la-manipulation-de-donnees-scientifiques-avec-lia-generative/
#IA #fraudescientifique #ChatGPT #GenAI #researchdata #data #science #googlescholar #search #slowscience #misconduct #publishORperish

"Larry Richardson is officially history’s highest cited cat (according to Google Scholar, at least)."

https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/

#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #GoogleScholar #Citations #ResearchGate #CitationManipulation

From Retraction Watch - Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry

https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/

> A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.

#academia #AcademicEthics #academicchatter #ResearchGate #GoogleScholar

Working on the first #LiteratureReview paper of my PhD, it stroke me that besides #GoogleScholar the commonly recommended search interfaces #WebofScience and #Scopus are behind paywalls. What are the alternatives if you want to support #openscience and #reproduciblescience in an interdisciplinary study?

"Why EXACTLY is Google Scholar bad for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews?" by Aaron Tay: https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2024/05/why-exactly-is-google-scholar-bad-for.html #GoogleScholar #SystematicReviews

It's irritating that #pubmed sends out #RSS announcements when the #DOI is not ready yet.

I'm not even sure how to access it just now since it is paywalled and that I usually get those thru either my library's DOI resolution, #Scholar or #unpaywall -- which doesn't link to the #preprint (yet?)

#GoogleScholar on the title does link to preprint, so if you read because you're interested in the #paper and not in my rant, here it is: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.07.570568

https://library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/manipulatable-google-scholar-citation-counts/
Thanks @jenniference for alerting #resarchers at #HKUST about the flaws of using #CitationCounts as assessment metrics, in particular, from #GoogleScholar

https://library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/manipulatable-google-scholar-citation-counts/
Thanks @jenniference for alerting #resarchers at #HKUST about the flaws of using #CitationCounts as assessment metrics, in particular, from #GoogleScholar

https://library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/manipulatable-google-scholar-citation-counts/
Thanks @jenniference for alerting #resarchers at #HKUST about the flaws of using #CitationCounts as assessment metrics, in particular, from #GoogleScholar

https://library.hkust.edu.hk/sc/manipulatable-google-scholar-citation-counts/
Thanks @jenniference for alerting #resarchers at #HKUST about the flaws of using #CitationCounts as assessment metrics, in particular, from #GoogleScholar

Delighted to share my latest #academic #milestones! 🎓

Exciting #update on my #scholarly journey, as reflected in my #GoogleScholar metrics:

#Citations: 3872
#hindex: 28
#i10index: 55

#Research in #SocialScience and #Policy.

Explore my work:
https://lnkd.in/gg8xaDn

#AcademicHarvest #AcademicProduction #ResearchImpact #KnowledgeSharing #Metrics #KPI @anthropol @economics @politicalscience @geography

@Loukas asked: "Is there some kind of open platform where teachers share lesson plans and resources?" Greetings from Japan, and hope this helps:

At Humanities Commons you can set up a free Profile and site that is principally a blog or a Website - like I have at https://japanned.hcommons.org - and they have a repository called CORE to upload all sorts of publications and deliverables, in categories including "Course material or learning objects" (each assigned a DOI and connected to Google Scholar), an example of which you can see under "Work Shared in CORE" at https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan

In their guide for educators to get started, the first categories they mention are Syllabus and Course Material collections: https://team.hcommons.org/2019/08/20/the-educators-guide-to-humanities-commons

Humanities Commons has a Mastodon instance as well, at https://hcommons.social/home

#education #school #teaching #OpenEducation #OpenAccess #OER #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #HumanitiesCommons #GoogleScholar @edutooter @academicchatter

AI science search engines are exploding in number — are they any good? [Nature] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01273-w
>Several search tools claim to help researchers do science.

#academic #SearchEngines #Elicit #Consensus #Scite #GoogleScholar #ChatGTP #LLM #AI

@ct_bergstrom have you tried #elicit (https://elicit.org/). I have found that is much better than #googlescholar at finding papers and it also does not try to gamify your science.

2022 #Academic #Scientific Year #Performance #Impact #Metrics #Harvest Summary
via #GoogleScholar #Index #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

#Citations in 2022: 634

Total #citations 3145
#hindex 24
#i10index 48

https://lnkd.in/g_j-vdgq