Google Scholar for the next millenium?

Jaska — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:34:44 -0400

So I was recently browsing through Google Scholar to see if it has picked up any paper's with my name on. The way this works, is that Google crawls the web, and when it finds a PDF or other document that it deems to be academic, it adds it to the scholar database.

This is great, but to my surprise, the first entry under my name is a report that Farsheed and I wrote junior year for a class project. We are forward thinkers and at the time, we were trying to solve pitch detection for the next millenium.

It is not too surprising then, that this project report has more citations (one - from Brazil) than any of the papers that have actually been published.

The search also returns another author with my name (he is not a Mayor of course) that publishes in similar journals. Without a doubt we must already be friends on Facebook since that is the best place to find Jason Laska. A nice feature would be a disambiguation tool similar to Wikipedia's for dealing with this.

This report was from my time as an undergrad, but I imagine that even high school students today who have their class projects posted on the web will find that they too are google scholars.

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Google Scholar for the next millenium?