{"id":24192,"date":"2024-10-24T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=24192"},"modified":"2024-10-25T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:38:38","slug":"alternatives-to-google-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/10\/alternatives-to-google-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Google Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Elliott has an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2024\/10\/22\/google-scholar-is-not-broken-yet-but-there-are-alternatives\/\">blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere are alternatives to Google Scholar which operate from an open research ethos and are free to use. Three prominent alternatives are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lens<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/matilda.science\/about?l=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matilda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openalex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAlex<\/a>. The one I\u2019ve used most is OpenAlex. One study\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/arXiv.2401.16359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has found it to have comparable coverage to Web of Science and Scopus<\/a>, and my own limited testing found significantly more publications indexed from social sciences and humanities subjects. Their code is fully open, and the data is reusable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>not as good as Google but usable<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 26.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Elliott has an interesting blog post There are alternatives to Google Scholar which operate from an open research ethos and are free to use. Three prominent alternatives are\u00a0The Lens,\u00a0Matilda\u00a0and\u00a0OpenAlex. The one I\u2019ve used most is OpenAlex. One study\u00a0has found it to have comparable coverage to Web of Science and Scopus, and my own limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/10\/alternatives-to-google-scholar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternatives to Google Scholar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2764,4925],"class_list":["post-24192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","tag-h-index","tag-scholar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24194,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192\/revisions\/24194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}