Professor Jonathan Eisen shares his thoughts on Google Scholar

Professor Jonathan Eisen appeared today as an invited contributor to the Google Scholar blog. He wrote on the topic of Using Google Scholar in Scholarly Workflows, the introduction of which is reproduced below:

When Anurag Acharya asked me recently if I would be interested in writing a guest post for the Google Scholar blog in relation to the 10th anniversary of Google Scholar, I immediately responded "Yes." Literally, that was the full content of my email response to his request. Why did I answer so enthusiastically? Well, I can put this down to three main reasons:

I have always been interested in methods of scholarly communication but much more so recently as I am working on two projects on the topic (one to run the "microbiology of the Built Environment network" or microBEnet and the other to co-run the UC Davis "Innovating Communication in Scholarship" project.

In the last 10 years Google Scholar has become a central part of my daily scholarly workflow

I kind of like to blog (for example see my Tree of Life blog, my posts on the microBEnet blog, and my posts on the ICIS blog)

So - in thinking about what to write for this post, I came up with three main topics I thought would be good to cover - how I got interested in topics of searching for and sharing scholarly papers, how I use Google Scholar, and some ideas about future possible uses of Google Scholar.