Another Google Scholar Glitch
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 02:35 pmA while back I mentioned how when vanity-googling I was surprised to see that I came up frequently in the first page of Google but was way down the list on Google Scholar (the reverse of how it was a few years back). Today I googled one of my own academic publications because I needed to cite it but couldn't remember the place and date of publication (and don't have it to hand because John Benjamins, despite promising a complimentary copy, never sent one). I got four hits on regular Google, thus providing me with the information I needed, and out of curiosity ran the same search on Google Scholar. Nothing.
[Some time later ...]
It turns out that the problem is that Google Scholar does not automatically reference chapters in compiled works. Running the search with "cognitive linguistics" and my name, rather than "cognitive linguistics" and the name of my article, got me a couple of hits (a review of the book and a citation in Zoltán Kövecses' Metaphor in Culture). So at least I'm not entirely off the academic radar.
[Some time later ...]
It turns out that the problem is that Google Scholar does not automatically reference chapters in compiled works. Running the search with "cognitive linguistics" and my name, rather than "cognitive linguistics" and the name of my article, got me a couple of hits (a review of the book and a citation in Zoltán Kövecses' Metaphor in Culture). So at least I'm not entirely off the academic radar.