Google Scholar is Google’s freely accessible search engine for scholarly publications and theses worldwide. The system has been operational since November 2004.
Search results from Google Scholar generate full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, dissertations, books, and other documents within the “scholarly” category, linked with references (via links to other documents).
Google Scholar displays bibliographic descriptions in the form of article links, enabling users to utilize author citation indexes for various indices included in its database.
Authors must create a personal profile for the correct functioning of the citation indexing apparatus of Google Scholar.