Overview Google Scholar is a powerful index of scholarly literature across disciplines, languages, time periods, and publishing formats The trick is to build a list of keywords and perform searches for them like self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles, or driverless cars
Use the "My library" feature to bookmark articles you want to read later on When signed in, Google Scholar adds some simple tools for keeping track of and organizing the articles you find The first of these is the Cited by link will show other articles that have cited this resource

How to use Google scholar: the ultimate guide

One advantage of using Google Scholar is that the interface is comforting and familiar to anyone who uses Google.

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How to use Google scholar: the ultimate guide
This is a much different process to how information is collected and indexed in scholarly databases such as Scopus or Web of Science
How to use Google scholar: the ultimate guide
GS is a free that can be thought of as the academic version of Google
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In case you got overwhelmed by those many options, we have put together some illustrative examples below: Example queries When to use and what will it do? For a regular Google search we might enter something like ""
The information in Google Scholar is not cataloged by professionals If you put your search phrase into quotes you can search for exact matches of that phrase in the title and the body text of the document
These can be useful if you are not using a full academic reference manager This lowers the learning curve of

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Note, that it's not guaranteed that it is the version of the article that was finally published in the journal.

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How to use Google scholar: the ultimate guide
The available options are BibTex for Latex editors , EndNote for EndNote , RefMan for RefMan, Zotero, and Mendeley, among other , and RefWorks
Advantages/Limitations of Google Scholar
Results are often vary in quality and it is up to the researcher to determine which of the results are suitable for their purposes
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Appended labels will appear at the end of the article titles