spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "google-scholar",3  "name": "Google Scholar",4  "aliases": ["Scholar"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Google", "slug": "google", "website": "https://www.google.com" },6  "homepage_url": "https://scholar.google.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html",8  "product_type": "service",9  "product_status": "active",10  "summary": "Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles",11  "description": "Google Scholar is Google's free search engine for scholarly literature. It crawls publisher sites, repositories, preprint servers and university pages and ranks results by full text, venue, author and citation signals, so it tends to be the broadest single place to start a literature search even though its coverage is not disclosed.\n\nBeyond keyword search, Scholar exposes citation counts and a \"cited by\" link for each record, related-article suggestions, library links that resolve to a university's subscriptions, e-mail alerts for new results, and public author profiles that aggregate an author's citations. Bibliographic records can be exported to BibTeX, RIS and other formats for a reference manager, and inclusion guidelines describe how publishers and repositories can make their content indexable.\n\nIts limits matter for systematic work: there is no official API, bulk or automated querying is blocked, the index cannot be enumerated, results are not reproducible over time, and citation counts include non-peer-reviewed sources. Researchers who need an auditable search typically pair it with a database that exposes its corpus and an API, such as OpenAlex or Semantic Scholar.",12  "capabilities": ["Full-text search across publishers, repositories and preprint servers", "Citation counts and cited-by navigation", "Public author profiles with aggregated metrics", "E-mail alerts for new matching results", "Library links to institutional subscriptions", "Export of records to BibTeX, RIS and other formats"],13  "workflows": ["Scoping a new topic before a structured database search", "Tracking who cites a paper via alerts", "Finding open-access copies of paywalled articles"],14  "advantages": ["Free with no account required for search", "Very broad coverage across disciplines and document types", "Simple interface familiar to most researchers"],15  "limitations": ["No official API; automated access is blocked", "Index coverage and ranking are not documented", "Searches are not reproducible for systematic reviews", "Citation counts mix peer-reviewed and grey literature"],16  "prerequisites": ["A web browser; a Google account for alerts and profiles"],17  "audiences": ["Students and researchers in any field", "Librarians", "Authors tracking their citations"],18  "alternatives": ["semantic-scholar", "openalex", "scite"],19  "comparison_notes": "Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex expose their corpora through documented APIs and open data, which Google Scholar does not; Scholar's advantage is breadth and ubiquity rather than programmability.",20  "categories": [{ "slug": "academic-discovery", "primary": true }],21  "tags": ["search", "citations", "bibliography", "documentation"],22  "use_cases": ["manage-references", "write-papers"],23  "operating_systems": ["web"],24  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],25  "interfaces": ["web", "browser-extension"],26  "deployment_models": ["saas"],27  "integrations": ["Zotero (via connector)", "Mendeley", "EndNote", "BibTeX"],28  "data_formats": ["BibTeX", "RIS", "EndNote", "RefWorks"],29  "languages": [],30  "source_model": "proprietary",31  "pricing_model": ["free"],32  "self_hostable": false,33  "sources": [34    { "url": "https://scholar.google.com/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Google Scholar", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },35    { "url": "https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html", "type": "official_docs", "title": "About Google Scholar", "supports": ["capabilities", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },36    { "url": "https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters", "supports": ["description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }37  ],38  "confidence": "high",39  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",40  "depth": "standard",41  "editorial_status": "reviewed",42  "visibility": "public",43  "featured": false,44  "author": "batch-E"45}46