Scholrly
Productivity
academic search
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#667of 1,739 in 2013
Top 39%of 2013 by points
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0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.57.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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Ideas of browsing citation and co-authorship graphs are useful
From 1 comment
Actually- we address some of that! So we don't quite provide a Zotero data utopia (yet...), but * each paper page has PDF links and BibTeX * we extract citation data from PDFs so…
mhluongo on HN
Objections
Search results are poor and irrelevant, with missing big names
From 3 comments
I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…
kanzure on HNHere's some feedback from 5 mins of use. (My field is philosophy) Searching for paper title 'Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives' doesn't return the paper or author.…
davekinkead on HNCompare these two searches from a mathematics & CS related area of philosophy: http://scholr.ly/results/?q=bayesian+epistemology&x=0&y=0&page=0…
davekinkead on HN
Interface is cluttered and slow, adds friction over Google Scholar
From 1 comment
Very fast and unfiltered initial reaction: This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and…
pataprogramming on HN
Only covers computer science, not other fields like philosophy
From 1 comment
We're only indexing computer and information science related articles right now. One of the interface's most obvious failures is communicating that- we'll try to improve the…
mhluongo on HN
Author profiles are fragmented and wrongly merged
From 1 comment
On search context- very good point. We're putting together a couple graphical summaries to try for profiles, as well as exposing keywords on search results soon. I think you're…
mhluongo on HN
Requests
Public API and raw citation data in JSON or BibTeX
From 3 comments
I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…
kanzure on HNI imagine it would look like raw data, probably json. Then you can do the mashups play, etc. I think Elsevier has tried some of that to some success (look at their API docs).…
kanzure on HNYeah? Is there a freely available api for your service, which exposes PDF links among other things? If so, I and many other university library developers would be VERY interested…
jrochkind1 on HN
Sample queries and clearer usage instructions
From 1 comment
I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…
kanzure on HN
Show full-text PDF links and supplementary materials
From 1 comment
I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…
kanzure on HN
Questions
What does the site do compared to Google Scholar
From 2 comments
So, not trying to be a dick, but what does it do? Is it supposed to be a better Google Scholar? The "about" page is pretty terse and all it tells me is that your site is…
pseut on HNSo far in my using it, it appears to offer the same features as Google Scholar, and I can't find much on the about page. How would you describe your new take? Also I would…
milesokeefe on HN
Who is the target audience
From 1 comment
Who is this aimed for? PhD students? Faculty? Businesses looking for consultants? I'm not that far along in my career (assistant prof in econ) but I know many of the people…
pseut on HN
Alternatives named
Google Scholar
From 2 comments
The big challenge with 'scholarly search' is that what users want is to get to fulltext, but most scholarly fulltext is behind paywalls. Google Scholar and MSN Academic both have…
jrochkind1 on HNVery fast and unfiltered initial reaction: This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and…
pataprogramming on HN
Microsoft Academic Search
From 1 comment
I'm surprised nobody mentioned MSR academic search in the comments yet. It is light-years better than Google Scholar. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ Example author page:…
dude_abides on HN
Mendeley
From 2 comments
I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…
kanzure on HNI imagine it would look like raw data, probably json. Then you can do the mashups play, etc. I think Elsevier has tried some of that to some success (look at their API docs).…
kanzure on HN
RePEc
From 1 comment
You may want to check out the RePEc sites for ideas, they're for econ, so you may not have come across them. One main page is: http://ideas.repec.org author listings are:…
pseut on HN