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Illiteracy & Innumeracy of Google Scholar Samples May-June, 2009

Illiteracy & Innumeracy of Google Scholar Samples May-June, 2009. Dr. Peter Jacso Professor Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii. Boolean OR to broaden the search ends up being narrowed by an order of magnitude in the hands of GS. Jacso.

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Illiteracy & Innumeracy of Google Scholar Samples May-June, 2009

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  1. Illiteracy & Innumeracy of Google ScholarSamples May-June, 2009 Dr. Peter Jacso Professor Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii

  2. Boolean OR to broaden the search ends up being narrowed by an order of magnitude in the hands of GS Jacso

  3. Narrowing the year range increases the hit counts in GS Jacso

  4. What GS can fancy for author, journal name, publication year? Street address, menu options names, part of fax numbers – you name it Jacso

  5. And the true metadata in the source document Jacso

  6. Absurd citation matching yielding a too good to be true citedness count for a 1-year old paper Jacso

  7. The paper was seemingly cited years/ decade before it was published – according to GS Jacso

  8. Ghost authors and lost authors + phantom citations – courtesy of Google Scholar Jacso

  9. From Blackwell’s digital collection alone GS mis-identifies 58,000 authors as F. Password Jacso

  10. Author names made from menu options Jacso

  11. 38,600 papers by extremely productive and well-cited author named TOC View Jacso

  12. The real authors are robbed blind of citations Jacso

  13. Except some which GS could not match up and credit to the ghost author TOC View Jacso

  14. GS Jacso

  15. What is publication year – page number, ZIP-code qualifier, you name it Jacso

  16. GS #1 item for PY=2010 Jacso

  17. GS #2 item PY=2010 Jacso

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