Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and
technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find
articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies,
preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available
across the web.
Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your
search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful
references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes
into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the
publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in
scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts
citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they
refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of
older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline
publications.
Please let us know if you have suggestions, questions or
comments about Google Scholar. We recognize the debt we owe to all those in
academia whose work has made Google itself a reality and we hope to make Google
Scholar as useful to this community as possible. We believe everyone should have
a chance to stand on the shoulders of giants.