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[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

scholar.google.com is where you want to go.

Also, in my Google-fu experience technical terms work well for finding better scholarly results.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Same experience I have had. Swapping to scholar gets me relevant results that aren't filled with ai gibberish and backwater Hokum. Still have to be careful about study sizes and sigma values and applicability, but miles ahead for at least getting to that being my issue.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] lemmyman@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Yes this is absurd, but it's a (serious) scientific community issue, not a search engine issue.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Putting scientific in the search criteria should redirect there then.

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

At the very least, it might be nice if they ask you if you want to go there instead.

On the other hand, I'm just happy that Google Scholar hasn't gotten completely destroyed by SEO yet.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Bro, the works cited is the SEO.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

What’s the scientific term for rocks?

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

In fairness, I was thinking specifically of plants. I expect better results when looking up "S. lycopersicum" than "tomato".

An example off the top of my head is saying pyrite instead of fool's gold.

[-] Mo5560@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

I still remember trying to find the space group for Copper Telluride. No amount of technical terms could help me there.

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