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.

Google Scholar uses a web crawler, or web robot, to identify files for inclusion in the search results. For content to be indexed in Google Scholar, it must meet certain specified criteria.

Literature contents indexed by the crawler are offered to the public the Google Scholar search Web portal: scholar.google.com.

Main features provided by Google Scholar are:

• Access to Literature Content.
• Citation Analysis and Tools.
• Related Articles.
• Personalized Settings.
• Library Integration.
• Publisher Integration.
• Author Profiles.
• Citation Metrics.
• No Public API.

Here is a screenshot of the Google Scholar search Web portal:

⇒ Search by DOI on Google Scholar

⇐ Google Scholar

⇑ Google Scholar

⇑⇑ Research Paper Databases