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Summary

Google Scholar is a search engine[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of search engine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,679 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: bibliographic database[3], website[4], online database[5]
  • Maintained by: Google[6]
  • Owned by: Google[7]
  • Operator: Google[8]
  • Commons category: Google Scholar[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10], German[11], Spanish[12], French[13], Catalan[14], Czech[15], Danish[16], Filipino[17], Croatian[18], Indonesian[19], Latvian[20], Lithuanian[21], Hungarian[22], Dutch[23]
  • Has part(s): Google Scholar author ID[24], Google Scholar paper ID[25]
  • Inception: November 2004[26]
  • Official website: https://scholar.google.com/[27]
  • Main subject: academic writing[28]
  • Described at URL: https://tapor.ca/tools/1260[29], https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/yYW0NG[30]
  • Product or material produced: scholarly profiling[31]
  • Described by source: Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure[32], The varying openness of digital open science tools[33], Google Scholar[34]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1960[35], P4028[36], P8008[37], P11961[38]
  • Search formatter URL: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=$1[39]

Why It Matters

Google Scholar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

Related Entities

Google website

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . scholar.google.com. scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · MidleadingBot bot · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Official website → https://scholar.google.com/
    Alternativeto software id → google-scholar
    Search formatter url → —
    + 62 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Domain name: scholar.google.com, bot ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/10bcdcfac5a34fd297844ea18584d62d|details]])"
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