Google Scholar Enhancement -- Recent Articles

Google has mentioned on their blog an enhancement to its Google Scholar service, which itself is available at http://scholar.google.com/.

Do a search. I'll do one for Chris Sherman. If you look at the right side of the results page you'll see that the default search result gives you all articles for that search. However you also have the option to see recent articles.

An initial search for Chris gives 184 results. But looking at recent articles narrows that down to 69. Google notes in the blog post that "It's not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, by looking at the prominence of the author's and journal's previous papers, how many citations it already has, when it was written, and so on." If you glance at the citation listings for each item on the recent article list, you'll be able to tell that the results aren't listed in order of citation. But they don't appear to give a lot of weight by date, either. Perhaps by recentness of citation and number of citations and date?

If you haven't used Google Scholar, play around with it a little bit. Search results include the ability to see who is citing a particular paper, view the article as HTML (if available) view a cached version of the article (if available), do a Web search for the title and author of a result, and the ability to search external sources (WorldCat and British Library direct) for copies of articles, books, and periodicals.

Now... how about an RSS feed for these recent articles?

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