3 things you should know about Google Scholar

The current internet cannot be understood without Google. We are in daily contact with the products of this company: the search engine, Chrome browser, Gmail mail, Google Maps, Google Drive cloud storage and more. However, one of the tech giant’s lesser-known products is Academic Google.

Google Scholar o Google Scholar, by its name in English, is a web search engine, whose results are of an academic-scientific nature. It is accessible in 39 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. As with the general search engine, the first results are what will be most attached to the term entered by the person.

Plus anyone can create their profile, you don’t need to be a scholar. Simply upload your own scientific or academic publications. Through this profile, the author can know how many times he has been cited. The Google robot inspects the published information, prior to making it available to its users. Once the process is approved, the web pages are included in the searches

1. How to access Google Scholar?

Within an internet browser, you have to enter the page https://scholar.google.com/. As is done in any search engine, type the term for which you want to find information. It allows the user to obtain results in Spanish or in any language available for their search.

The websites that are of interest to the person can be saved in a virtual Library and place them hang tags to classify them.

2. Why is Google Scholar reliable?

Because it mainly indexes content from libraries, publishers, bibliographic data, theses, dissertations, books, scientific journals, professional societies and congresses. That is, not just any website, but those that meet certain requirements. Let’s remember that index It is the process by which Google appends a web page to its index in order to display it for a search.

The way documents are classified online is related to the text as a whole, who wrote it, and how often it is cited in scientific or scholarly papers.

3. How to cite from Google Scholar?

It has a tool to integrate citation rates; that is, a list of bibliographical references, with links to each source and full text.

In summary, Google Scholar is a search engine and database of academic literature, from various disciplines, which can be very useful for school or research projects.

itzayana.rios@eleconomista.mx