Google Scholar Info Needed

hsmcminn
I am working on an article comparing Google Scholar results with other databases and I don't fully understand how the reference type is determined when capturing Google Scholar records with Zotero. I have a number of references that are tagged as Journal Articles which have come from online repositories of dissertations and I don't know why they aren't tagged as Thesis. My guess is that its the fault of the metadata or tagging at the source institution (archive) rather than Google Scholar, but I would like to have a better understanding as to where this information is obtained.

Any help would be appreciated...

You can send responses directly to my personal e-mail (2rumrunner@gmail.com) or reply to the forum.

Thank you in advance.....Steve
  • adamsmith
    Zotero uses the BibTex data provided by google scholar.
    You can view that by clicking on the "import into BibTex" button on the right bottom of a search result in google scholar.
    BibTex results start with the item type, e.g.
    @article - for an article and
    @book - for a book
    indeed, that information isn't super reliable from google scholar (e.g. book chapters are hardly ever correct)

    How google scholar gets that information I don't know, you'd probably be better of asking them or on their forum.
  • noksagt
    edited July 2, 2010
    (edited)
    Beaten in my response, but this is still relevant:


    It would be helpful if you linked to particular records that were importing with the wrong type, though.

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