Aaron Tay: Why EXACTLY is Google Scholar bad for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews?, in: Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship 12.05.2024
1. Google Scholar ranks at most 1,000 results.
2. Google Scholar has no official bulk export function
3. Google Scholar lacks features needed for high recall, high precision searching.
4. Google Scholar is not a database?!?! or Google Scholar crawls the web so it’s index is unstable
5. Google Scholar is a black box, the algorithm is not transparent or known
6. We do not understand how Google Scholar works, results are not interpretable or explainable
7. Google Scholar is just not reproducible