Dubious hit counts and cuckoo's eggs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss dubious hit counts in search results. Design/methodology/approach – Uses not only traditional databases and search engines but also unique citation databases to gain informative hit figures. Findings – Searches are finding materials that are clearly not scholarly materials. Originality/value – Shows the importance of a more defined search, thus less distortion of counts.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Jacsó, Péter
Published in:	Online Information Review. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1468-4535, ZDB-ID 2014462-3. - Vol. 30.2006, 2, p. 188-193
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Subject:	Search engines \| Information retrieval \| Databases

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	review-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/14684520610659201 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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