One of the services I provide to clients is citation searching - i.e. identifying papers that cite a paper of interest. This is often in support of Visa applications to prove a person’s scientific credibility.
Over the last few years I’ve come to use Google Scholar more and more over the traditional Science Citation Index. I have to admit that Google Scholar does a much better job than I had imagined it would. My only quip with it is that there is no simple way to output your results - which means that if like me you need to send out a report you end up doing a lot of cutting and pasting.
So I have to hand it to Google - Scholar is a great service content wise but it could really benefit from some TLC on output and format.
Here are some results that I recently had using both services and some general comments about the Pros and Cons of each.
