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ANALYZING THE CONTENTS OF GOOGLE

SCHOLAR, WOS, GEOREF AND FRANCIS

FOR PHYSICAL AND HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Simona STIRBU - Library of Sciences and Technologies, Geography Section-University of Liege, Belgium

Ninfa GRECO - Library of Sciences and Technologies, University of Liege,Belgium

26 May 2011 QQML 2011 Athens,

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http://www.ulg.ac.be/

ANALYZING DATABASES:

Presentation of researches/databases

Keywords

Contents, evolution, and duplicates

Conclusions

Future analysis2

SEARCHES regarding exclusively CONTENTS IN :

Google Scholar

search engine

Web of Science

FRANCIS

GeoRef

OR

?

Questions:

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR:

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Breadth of coverage Coverage years Resources Information

Type

500M records Unknown peer-reviewed papers,

theses, books,

abstracts and articles,

from academic

publishers, professional

societies, preprint

repositories,

universities and other

scholarly organizations

Citations

Abstracts

Full Text

Source: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

Web of Science FRANCIS GeoRef

Breadth of

coverage

40 million records

10,000 titles

Journals (240 open

access) & conference

papers

2.5 million

records(journal

articles, books,

conference

proceedings,

dissertations, and

reports)

3 million records

(3,500 journals,

books, maps,

government reports,

conference papers,

theses and

dissertations)

Coverage

years

A&HCI: 1975-present

SCI: 1900-present

SSCI: 1956-present

1972-present 1933-present

1669- present(for

North America)

Source http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_productsp

ecs/

http://support.ebsco.com/help/?i

nt=ehost&lang=en&feature_id=

Databases&TOC_ID=Always&S

I=0&BU=0&GU=1&PS=0&ver=li

ve&dbs=,fcs

http://support.ebsco.com/help/?int

=ehost&lang=en&feature_id=Data

bases&TOC_ID=Always&SI=0&B

U=0&GU=1&PS=0&ver=live&dbs

=,geh

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KEYWORDS identically repeated

in the TITLE field

Physical Geography : Human Geography :

month by month(11/2010 to 05/2011) for the years 2005 to 2009!

RESULTS

databases CONTENTS /RESULTS possible evolution of GS

"urbanization "

"immigration "

"transportation "

"tourism "

"gentrification "

"flood "

"erosion "

"earthquake

"tsunami "

"sedimentation "

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"FLOOD" 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

"Google Scholar" 2180 2200 2190 2230 2580

WOS 315 320 329 395 465

GeoRef 228 222 216 187 156

FRANCIS 24 16 19 14 11

"EARTHQUAKE" 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Google Scholar 3490 3890 3020 4340 4280

WOS 636 689 547 681 862

GeoRef 1269 1857 1168 1142 625

FRANCIS 21 16 10 13 16

"EROSION" 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Google Scholar 2540 2730 2640 2560 2560

WOS 607 573 616 707 731

GeoRef 486 456 387 407 348

FRANCIS 65 68 61 53 43

"SEDIMENTATION" 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Google Scholar 889 883 822 841 745

WOS 282 274 293 292 255

GeoRef 303 279 226 261 120

FRANCIS 13 7 9 3 6

"TSUNAMI" 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Google Scholar 1980 1480 1100 1100 936

WOS 388 327 263 256 241

GeoRef 253 328 387 188 113

FRANCIS 19 16 19 19 15

CONCRETE EXAMPLES:

Physical Geography Human Geography

“flood” “urbanization”

no. of references no. of references

raises continuously is variable

> 1000

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

5000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Number of references found in

GS for Physical Geography in

May 2011

"earthquake" "erosion" "flood" "tsunami" "sedimentation"

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Number of references found

in GS for Physical Geography

in November 2010

"earthquake" "erosion" "flood" "tsunami" "sedimentation"

RESULTS IN GS - PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY:

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AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE EVOLUTION 2005 TO 2009

10

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

No of ref found in each DB

respectively for the keyword

“flood“ in November 2010

Google Scholar WOS GeoRef FRANCIS

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

No of ref found in each DB

respectively for the keyword

"flood" in May 2011

"Google Scholar" WOS GeoRef FRANCIS

11

2100

2150

2200

2250

2300

2350

2005/nov 2005/dec 2005/janv 2005/fevr 2005/mars 2005/mai

Evolution of the no. of

ref. for “flood” – 2005 in

GS from Nov to May

Google Scholar

2100

2200

2300

2400

2500

2600

2700

2800

2009/nov 2009/dec 2009/jan 2009/febr 2009/march 2009/may

Evolution of the no. of ref.

for "flood" - 2009 in GS

from Nov to May

Google Scholar

315 315 315 315 315 315

228 228

242 242 243 243

24 24 24 24 24 24


Number of references for the keyword "flood" in WOS,

Francis and GeoRef

WOS GeoRef FRANCIS

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RESULTS IN GS - HUMAN GEOGRAPHY:

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009


GS for Human Geography in

November 2010

"tourism" "transportation" "immigration"

urbanization "gentrification"

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Number of references found in GS

for Human Geography in May

2011

"tourism" "transportation" "immigration"

"urbanization" "gentrification"

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

884 879938 901 933

83 68 87116 116

19 8 16 14 622 15 25 15 12


each BD respectively for the

keyword « urbanization »in Nov

2010

"Google Scholar" WOS FRANCIS GeoRef

14

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

940 930995 971 967

83 68 87 116 11619 8 16 14 623 15 26 19 13

Number of references found

in each DB respectively for

the keyword "urbanization" in

May 2011

"Google Scholar" WOS FRANCIS GeoRef

884

939

997

889

946940

2005/nov 2005/dec 2005/janv 2005/fevr 2005/mars 2005/mai

"Evolution" of the no of ref for the keyword

"urbanization“ – 2005 in GS from Nov to May

Google Scholar

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83 83 83 83 83 83

22 23 23 23 23 23

19 19 19 19 19 19


Number of references for the keyword

"urbanization“ in WOS, GeoRef and FRANCISWOS GeoRef FRANCIS

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY - REFERENCES FROM WOS, GEOREF,

FRANCIS FOUND IN GS FOR THE YEAR 2005 – DUPLICATES

“flood”

Tot. no of ref Duplicates Percentage

WOS(315) 201 63%

Georef (243) 99 GS(2350/1000) 40%

FRANCIS(24) 17 70%

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - REFERENCES FROM WOS, GEOREF,

FRANCIS FOUND IN GS FOR THE YEAR 2005 – DUPLICATES

“urbanization”

Tot. no of ref Duplicates Percentage

WOS (83) 65 78%

GeoRef (24) 18 GS (946) 68%

FRANCIS(19) 13 75%

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FINDINGS:

GS useful search engine BUT:

- no. of ref. reduced to 1000 for certain keywords

- ref. of GS are not the versions of bibliogr. DB BUTpresent., books, conf. papers, citations…

- advanced search, export and duplicate detection, limited;

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CONCLUSION & FINDINGS

- results conform to the specificity of the DB

- both domains of geography are well represented

- geographers could use GS as a complementary tool for their bibliographic research

- to find grey literature;

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QUESTIONS FOR MY FUTURE STUDIES:

- HOW/DO geographers use the literature found in DB active bibliographical research with one geographer/field on an actual research?

- Percentage of grey literature in GS? Is this literature used(reports, conf. presentations, etc) by geographers?

- Human or Physical Geography better represented by GS?

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Thank you for your attention!

Contact: [email protected]@ulg.ac.ce

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