(24 Jan 2022) An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research…
(4 May 2021) From Microsoft press release: Microsoft Research will continue to support the automated AI agents powering Microsoft Academic services through the end of calendar year 2021. During this time, we encourage existing Microsoft Academic users to begin transitioning to other equivalent services. Below are just a few of the many great options…
(11 Nov 2020) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship: “In terms of cross disciplinary citation indexes that are used for discovery, everyone knows of the two incumbents — Web of Science and Scopus(2004). Joined by the large web scale Google Scholar (2004), these three reigned as the “Big 3” of citation indexes for roughly a decade more or less…
(13 Mar 2020) With the rapid growth of COVID-19 upon the world, the number of research papers on the virus is also increasing. See how the trend grows in Google search by matching the dates of related scientific activities, and see how researches around this new topic evolve through citation and change of keywords via…
(19 June 2017) Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. While there are reservations about the availability of instructions for novice users, Microsoft Academic has impressive semantic search…
(20 May 2016) Dr Kuansan Wang, Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, writes in his blog that new technologies are being applied to Microsoft Academic, which helps researchers connect with the papers, conferences, people, and ideas that are most relevant, using bots that read, understand, and deliver the scientific news and papers researchers need to…