Pretty impressive, actually. It found almost all my papers in the
first couple pages, found a bunch of papers that cited me, and
turned up (as far as I can see) no false positives at all. Trying a
few other searches (e.g. "thimet", "ICP47") shows similar
accuracy.
It misses a few. Searching PubMed directly gives much better
coverage of published papers, and there are specialized resources
for citations that are also much better than Google (Google found
something like 20-30 citations of my papers, whereas the ISI Web of
Knowledge finds over 1000 citations of my papers from 1994 to 1996
alone (which is where I got bored). Similarly, searching PubMEd for
"thimet" turns up many more citations than did Google Scholar --
though GS did pull up most of the really significant ones.
Still, pretty impressive, as we've come to expect of Google.
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