Microsoft Academic

Microsoft Academic
Type of site
 Bibliographic database
Owner Microsoft
Website academic.microsoft.com
Registration Optional
Launched February 22, 2016 (2016-02-22)
Current status Active

Microsoft Academic is a free public search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies and it currently indexes over 150 million entities.[1] The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes.[2]

The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development in 2012.[3]

Preliminary reviews by bibliometricians suggest the new Microsoft Academic Search is a competitor to Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus for academic research purposes[4][5] as well as citation analysis.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Microsoft Academic Search FAQ". Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Microsoft. "Academic Knowledge API". Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Van Noorden, Richard (20 May 2014). "The decline and fall of Microsoft Academic Search". blogs.nature.com. Nature. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Harzing, Anne-Wil. "Microsoft Academic (Search): a Phoenix arisen from the ashes?" (PDF). Scientometrics. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Hug, Sven E.; Braendle, Martin P. (2017). "The coverage of Microsoft Academic: Analyzing the publication output of a university". arXiv:1703.05539 Freely accessible [cs.DL].
  6. ↑ Harzing, Anne-Wil; Alakangas, Satu. "Microsoft Academic: is the Phoenix getting wings ?" (PDF). Scientometrics. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Hug, Sven E.; Ochsner, Michael; Braendle, Martin P. (2017). "Citation analysis with Microsoft Academic". Scientometrics. 111: 371. arXiv:1609.05354 Freely accessible. doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2247-8.


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