2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

Paper No. 2
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM

Comparison of GeoRef and Google Scholar


MUSSER, Linda R., Fletcher L. Byrom Earth & Mineral Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State Univ, 105 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, Lrm4@psu.edu

Recent studies have compared the coverage of topical bibliographic databases with Google Scholar. Overlap in coverage ranges from less than ten percent to over ninety percent; coverage by age of material varied greatly as well. A 2006 article by Neuhaus, et al. reported that overlap between Google Scholar and GeoRef was twenty-six percent and that there was a ‘pronounced bias toward English language publications”. This study looks more closely at the overlap between these two resources, with specific attention paid to overlap by language and date of publication.