(14 Oct 2026) Students in economics and business studies today draw on a wide range of information environments when searching for academic literature. Google Scholar, library catalogues and generative AI are part of their everyday research routines. But what role do traditional subject-specific databases still play? And how well do students manage to find information, assess its quality and use it correctly in an academic context?
These questions are at the heart of our new study (in German) „Zwischen Google Scholar und ChatGPT – Wie Wirtschaftsstudierende heute recherchieren“ (“Between Google Scholar and ChatGPT – How economics and business students conduct research today”). Between March and May 2026, we conducted an online survey of 908 economics and business students at German universities.
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