Aw: Re: [SIGMETRICS] [SIGMETRICS] GOOGLE SCHOLAR DIGEST. Research on Google Scholar: empirical evidences

[David Wojick]

Dear Jose Luis,

I realize that MAS is still alive. The person I was referring to was Lee 
Dirks, whom I understand championed MAS at Microsoft HQ. See
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/microsoft-couple-lee-dirks-judy-lew-die-car-accident-peru/
and
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/ldirks/

David


At 08:55 AM 4/30/2014, you wrote:
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>Dear David,
>
>I doubt about your news, beacuse the scientific responsible of MAS is 
>Zaiqing Nie from Microsoft Research Asia, since the first steps of Libra 
>in 2007. He replied me a mail last month on MAS permissions!
>
>José Luis Ortega
>
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. April 2014 um 13:38 Uhr Von: "David Wojick" 
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>Scholar: empirical evidences
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>My understanding is that the man who was the force behind MAS died in an 
>auto accident several years ago so they may be drifting along with no real 
>in-house champion.
>
>David David Wojick
>Inside Public Access
><http://insidepublicaccess.com/>http://insidepublicaccess.com/
>On Apr 30, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Enrique Orduña <riorma at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
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>Dear José Luis, Thank you very much for your quick response and 
>cooperation, we appreciate it very much. The idea behind this newsletter 
>is to create a place to openly show ideas about Google Scholar and its 
>derivatives, and to collect and compile information that provide empirical 
>evidences about these tools
>.
>As for what you
>comment
>  about Microsoft Academic Search, we already know the serious problems of 
> name disambiguation and duplicates (triplicates, etc.) that the
>database
>  have. However, what is surprising is that records start falling in 2011. 
> If this is
>a
>hibernation, it is a strange behavior
>to hibernate
>. In addition, applications for admission of new journals are still 
>happening with apparent normality, which is even more incomprehensible,
>in the case
>they have decided to change the strategy. That the product needs a 
>revamping is clear. Anyway, the question is the following: in 2011, 2012, 
>2013 and 2014 we have been watching outdated listings, and this has been 
>unnoticed. Moreover, in 2013 it was
>officially
>announced the entry of new
>journals
>  and records
>,
>when the decrease of new records from previous years was already 
>clamorous. We also hope that the system could reborn from its ashes, 
>because it provided great features in addition to proposing a completely 
>different model
>to
>  Google Scholar, as you know well, after the recent comparative analysis 
> performed from the Cybermetrics Lab. Finally, I admit to being anxious to 
> read your new monograph devoted specifically to the academic search 
> engines. We are proud that these international-level contributions come 
> from Spain. We will be happy to include it in our Google Scholar Digest 
> as we "digest it". Best, Enrique Orduna
>-Malea
>
>On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jose Luis Ortega 
><<jose_ortega at gmx.htm>jose_ortega at gmx.net> wrote:
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>Dear Enrique and Emilio, Congratulations! I think that a Google digest 
>could be a good way to report new solutions and novelties of academic 
>search engines. Just a short comment: I do not consider that Microsoft 
>Academic Search (MAS) is dead; perhaps I suggest that it is hibernating. 
>This is because MAS have an author disambiguating problem. The percentage 
>of duplicated profiles is roughly 10-20%, so it causes serious problem 
>about reliability, use and modification requests. Then, I think that MAS 
>is waiting to solve these problems before to update the service, although 
>everybody knows that MAS only updates their databases once by year, a very 
>poor frequency. To justify my suspicions I attach two links to the ALIAS 
>project to solve these disambiguating problems. This leads me thinking 
>that Microsoft would not address these problems if it is thinking to close 
>MAS. On the contrary, it maybe is thinking to launch a new version more 
>reliable and competitive. 
><http://cwds.uw.edu/alias-identifying-duplicate-authors-microsoft-academic-search>http://cwds.uw.edu/alias-identifying-duplicate-authors-microsoft-academic-search 
>http://www.kdd.org/kddcup2013/sites/default/files/papers/papers.pdf At 
>last, I use the occasion to promote mi last book on MAS, Google Scholar 
>and other academic search engines. You can pre-order now in Google eBooks! 
><http://books.google.es/books?id=uelfAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb>http://books.google.es/books?id=uelfAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb 
>Regards José Luis Ortega CCHS-CSIC
>
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. April 2014 um 09:22 Uhr Von: "Enrique Orduña" 
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>
>Dear colleagues:
>
>
>
>“GOOGLE SCHOLAR DIGEST. Research on Google Scholar: empirical evidences” 
>is presented, an informative newsletter created and maintained by EC3 
>Research Group (<http://www.ec3.ugr.es>http://www.ec3.ugr.es), that comes 
>with the intention of reporting the results of upcoming research oriented 
>to shed light about Google Scholar and its derivatives (Google Scholar, 
>Google Scholar Citations, and Metrics). Since the products made by Google 
>are widely reported and raise sometimes acrimonious debates, it is 
>essential to provide empirical evidences based on research about its uses 
>and applications, determining accurately what their strengths and 
>weaknesses as data source are.
>
>
>
>Click here for more information:
>
><http://googlescholardigest.blogspot.com.es>http://googlescholardigest.blogspot.com.es
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>
>
>To inaugurate the blog we present a first report which intends to 
>summarize the main empirical evidences provided by the scientific 
>community as regards the comparison between the two main citation-based 
>academic search engines: Google Scholar (GS) and Microsoft Academic Search 
>(MAS), paying special attention to the following issues: coverage; 
>correlations between journal rankings; and usage of these academic search 
>engines.
>
>
>
>The poor results obtained by Microsoft Academic Search led us to an 
>unexpected and unnoticed discovery: Microsoft Academic Search is outdated 
>since 2013. Therefore, the second part of the working paper aims at 
>advancing some data demonstrating this lack of update.
>
>
>
>Finally, we can only be saddened by the performance loss of this product 
>of Microsoft, which poked healthy competition and had deployed at the same 
>time simple bibliometric indicators and brilliant visualization tools. We 
>do hope that Microsoft Academic Research can rise back for the sake of the 
>academic information search, and scientific evaluation.
>
>
>
>We hope this new service may be of interest.
>
>
>
>Best,
>
>Enrique Orduña-Malea
>EC3 Research Group. Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica
>/ Science and Scientific Communication Evaluation.
>
>Universi
>ty of
>Granada
>/ Polytechnic University of Valencia
>
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>
>
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>
>
>
>Enrique Orduña-Malea
>Personal de investigación. Grupo de Investigación EC3. Instituto de Diseño 
>y Fabricación (IDF).
>
>
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>
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