James Ball: Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be 'disappeared'. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google
Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being
widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent
or systematic evidence about the differences between them. In response, this paper investigates
2,448,055 citations to 2,299 English-language highly-cited documents from 252 GS subject categories published in 2006, comparing GS, the WoS Core Collection, and Scopus
With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities