Google Scholar
Broad scholarly search with citation tracking.
About
Google Scholar crawls journal articles, theses, books, and court opinions and ranks them largely by citation count and relevance. Authors can claim profiles with citation metrics, and every result links forward to papers that cite it. Its breadth makes it the default first stop for literature searches.
Features & use cases
- Search journal articles, theses, books, and case law
- Follow forward citation links from any result
- Claim an author profile with citation metrics
- Set alerts for new papers on a topic or author
- Rank results by citation count and relevance
- Default first stop for literature searches
