Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft Academic Search: Free Scholarly Literature Search

Free public academic search engine for scholarly literature across various disciplines and sources, including scientific papers, conference proceedings, books, and journals.

What is Microsoft Academic Search?

Microsoft Academic Search is a free public academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research. It provides access to scholarly documents from a wide variety of academic fields and sources. Some key features of Microsoft Academic Search include:

• Searches over 200 million publication records including scientific papers, conference proceedings, books, and journals
• Covers publications in various disciplines such as computer science, physics, social sciences, and more
• Analyzes citations and references to display citation statistics for publications as well as graphs of citations over time
• Computes various metrics like h-index and g-index to evaluate the impact of researchers, publications, organizations, and fields of study
• Offers APIs to access the data to perform custom analysis
• Provides recommendations of related academic publications based on an initial search

Overall, Microsoft Academic Search aims to be a comprehensive platform for searching scholarly literature and analyzing academic impact across different disciplines. The data it provides on citations, references, metrics as well as its APIs make it a useful tool for researchers, librarians, academic instituitions, and anyone interested in academic literature.

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