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About the Google Scholar's algorithm

Google Scholar(or scholar.google.com) has an algorithm, which is not very good. "Google Scholar ranks results with a combined ranking algorithm in a "way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature". Research has shown that Google Scholar puts high weight especially on citation counts and words included in a document's title. As a consequence, the first search results are often highly cited articles."

And here comes the Matthew effect

"Matthew effect — Google Scholar puts high weight on citation counts in its ranking algorithm and therefore is being criticized for strengthening the Matthew effect as highly cited papers appear in top positions they gain more citations while new papers hardly appear in top positions and therefore get less attention by the users of Google Scholar and hence fewer citations."

Source of the 2 quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License)

More about the Matthew effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect.

I don't use Google Scholar now. If you live somewhere, where you may use Google without any problem, plus if you use (or used already) Google Scholar, please share here your experience and your opinion, because we mostly like Google and its products, and it will be a real pleasure for us to know something more about it!

[MSL]

 It's a very bad effect, indeed!
 I'd like to clarify why we don't use it -- it's not because we don't want to, it's because many (most?) of us (the active users currently) are living in PRC, where (already years) Google is banned. So, instead we use Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and sometimes -- other SEs (Search engines).
 It'll be interesting to read more opinions from scholars, scientists and other persons, who already are more familiar with scholar.google.com (Google Scholar).

[Alexa]

I guess that maybe our dear Mojo has experience with it. If I'm right, I invite him to share his thoughts.