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Microsoft Academic – Alternative to Google Scholar

by thecodeboy on 10/23/21, 9:09 AM with 6 comments

• by amoshi on 10/23/21, 11:32 AM

  ...that's being "retired" at the end of 2021 so an alternative for ~2 months only.

• by evolve2k on 10/23/21, 9:10 PM

  Microsoft recommended a range of alternatives in their closure announcement. Anyone know much about any of these?

  - Aminer

  - CrossRef

  - Dimensions

  - lens.org

  - OpenAlex.org

  - OpenCitations

  - Scopus

  - Semantic Scholar

  Ref includes links half way down: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/ar...

• by dr_kiszonka on 10/23/21, 5:33 PM

  I used it for a while and it was surprisingly good. It is a pity it is going away. Maybe Microsoft could open-source the code and/or the data?

• by afandian on 10/23/21, 12:54 PM

  Are you interested in the underlying scholarly metadata? What format is most useful to you?