Google scholar is about to add some kind of ranking system, on the lines of Pagerank.
This strikes me as a good thing but I wish they would share that ranking algorithm. I recognize that they are probably looking to patent it (ugh!), but there’s a tradition in the academic community about being a bit transparent about such things
Alex Halavais writes. How very true; science ought to be about openness, many times it is not.
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