Microsoft Academic

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Microsoft Academic
scientific search engine and citation database
languages English
operator Microsoft
editorial staff Microsoft
items over 236 million
Registration optional
On-line 2016 (currently active)
https://academic.microsoft.com/

Microsoft Academic is a free and freely accessible scientific and semantic search engine with full text search as well as citation and reference database , which is operated by the company Microsoft . The linked content itself can be chargeable through a paywall or free of charge.

Statistics and data

According to the company's own statements, over 230 million scientific publications are indexed on the site, 88 million of which relate to articles from scientific journals . Over 240 million authors and scientists, over 48,000 scientific journals, over 4,400 specialist conferences and over 25,000 scientific institutions are also listed. Over 740,000 scientific topics are registered in its own directory and get their short definition and picture from the English language Wikipedia . Related, similar and sub-topics as well as publication statistics are displayed for a topic, which graphically depicts the development of publications and citations in recent years. Data can be read out automatically using the Academic Knowledge API programming interface . By filtering options of citations one is citation analysis possible. Top lists are also displayed for the individual data types and topics.

Development and predecessor

In 2006 Microsoft launched the Windows Live Academic Search search engine in order to be able to compete with Google Scholar and to expand the range of its own search engine Bing . It was renamed Live Search Academic on December 6, 2006 . On May 23, 2008 she was discontinued along with Live Search Books due to lack of success. Around 750,000 books and 80 million articles from scientific journals were scanned on both sides.

In 2009, the Microsoft Research team from Asia developed the data evaluation tool Libra , which by 2011 had collected more than 27 million entries on scientific works and later became the basis for the new Microsoft Academic Search service . In 2012, the development of Microsoft Academic Search was also stopped due to fewer users.

In July 2014, the Microsoft Research team announced a successor named Microsoft Academic for Bing and Cortana develop into what in the form of semantic data display of core data for searches by their own wish Knowledge Graph Microsoft Academic Graph has been implemented. On February 22, 2016, the new scientific search engine Microsoft Academic was launched for public use.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Microsoft Academic. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Microsoft Academic Analytics. In: Microsoft Research. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ Project Academic Knowledge. In: Microsoft Research. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ Scott Carlson: Challenging Google, Microsoft Unveils a Search Tool for Scholarly Articles . In: Chronicle of Higher Education . tape 52 , no. 33 , April 21, 2006, ISSN  0009-5982 ( ed.gov [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Guren, Cliff. Live Search Books Beta Release. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Miguel Helft: Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program . In: The New York Times . May 24, 2008, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  7. ^ Academic Search - Microsoft Research. February 25, 2014, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  8. ^ Péter Jacsó: "The pros and cons of Microsoft Academic Search from a bibliometric perspective" . In: Online Information Review . tape 6 , 2011, p. 983-997 , doi : 10.1108 / 14684521111210788 .
  9. ↑ Orduna-Malea, Enrique; Juan Manuel Ayllon; Martin-Martin, Alberto; Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar: "Empirical Evidences in Citation-Based Search Engines: Is Microsoft Academic Search dead?". Online Information Review " . In: Information Review . Volume 36 , no. 7 , 2014, p. 936 , doi : 10.1108 / OIR-07-2014-0169 .
  10. ^ Microsoft Academic. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  11. ^ "Making Cortana the Researcher's Dream Assistant". Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  12. ^ Microsoft Academic Graph. In: Microsoft Research. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (American English).
  13. ^ The decline and fall of Microsoft Academic Search: News blog. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .