Google Scholar Insights

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It is commonly used by researchers, academics, and students to find research papers, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites.

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What other technologies are related to Google Scholar?

Google Scholar Competitor Technologies

PubMed

PubMed is a search engine primarily accessing the MEDLINE database of biomedical literature, which overlaps significantly with the content indexed by Google Scholar. Both aim to provide access to scholarly publications in the life sciences, making them competitors in this domain.

mentioned alongside Google Scholar in 11% (283) of relevant job posts

Web of Science

Web of Science is a subscription-based scientific citation indexing service that provides comprehensive citation data and scholarly literature access. Its indexing and citation analysis features directly compete with Google Scholar's functionalities.

mentioned alongside Google Scholar in 16% (79) of relevant job posts

Scopus

Scopus is another subscription-based citation database that competes with Google Scholar by offering a comprehensive index of scholarly literature, citation analysis tools, and researcher profiles.

mentioned alongside Google Scholar in 14% (77) of relevant job posts

Embase

Embase is a biomedical literature database, similar to PubMed, containing a large collection of research articles, particularly strong in pharmacology and drug research. It is a competitor to Google Scholar for biomedical literature discovery.

mentioned alongside Google Scholar in 10% (66) of relevant job posts