Sunday, March 15, 2020

Google Scholar search: Indian CS & IT academic reform book appears in top twenty results for related search terms including book; Other related search result ranks

Last updated on 18th March 2020

Readers may want to read my later post dated 18th March 2020:
Marked improvement in result ranks for many related search terms in Google Scholar for Indian CS & IT academic reform book; Google Scholar now shows link to Google Books page of book,  https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2020/03/marked-improvement-in-result-ranks-for.html.

The recently released book titled, "Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform (Past) Activism Blog Book", (Google Books Preview (Full preview and PDF download) link: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=bOXUDwAAQBAJ ), of which I am the main author, now shows up on Google Scholar search as a [CITATION] entry. Note that there are 0 (zero) citations for the book now. Further note that the book also contains views of other contributors which is reflected in the book authors being shown in the front page as myself (as main author) and others.

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As can be seen from above screenshots, while there is no link to the book PDF in the Google Scholar results, Google search on the book title shown in Scholar results gives PDF links to the book including associated Google Books PDF link (3rd result in above Google search on book title results). One of the screenshots also shows how the book is to be cited as per various citation conventions.

I checked out whether the book is shown for various related search terms in Google Scholar.

Given below are the result ranks for [CITATION] entry of Indian CS & IT academic reform book and associated search terms in Google Scholar search, https://scholar.google.com. Note that this [CITATION] entry shows up even though there are 0 (zero) citations for the book now.

Search terms with book in it

4th rank (1st result page) - book indian computer science academic reform
4th rank (1st result page) - book indian software engineering academic reform
11th rank (2nd result page) - book indian software development academic reform

10th rank (1st result page) - book improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia
25th rank (3rd result page) - book software development education Indian Computer Science academia
33rd rank (4th result page) - book indian software development higher education reform

27th rank (3rd result page) - book improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia
35th rank (4th result page) - book software engineering education Indian Computer Science academia
29th rank (3rd result page) - book indian software engineering higher education reform

Search terms without book in it

24th rank (3rd result page) - Indian computer science academic reform
68th rank (7th result page) - indian software engineering academic reform
88th rank (9th result page) - indian software development academic reform

18th rank (2nd result page) - improve practice of software development in Indian Computer Science academia
36th rank (4th result page) - improve teaching of software development in Indian Computer Science academia
35th rank (4th result page) - improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia

63rd rank (7th result page) - improve software engineering practice in Indian Computer Science academia
70th rank (7th result page) - improve teaching of software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia
82nd rank (9th result page) - improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia

Search terms with book in it but without India or Indian

72nd rank (8th result page) - book computer science academic reform
39th rank (4th result page) - book software engineering academic reform
27th rank (3rd result page) - book software development academic reform


The associated screenshots are given below.


4th rank (1st result page) - book indian computer science academic reform


4th rank (1st result page) - book indian software engineering academic reform


11th rank (2nd result page) - book indian software development academic reform



10th rank (1st result page) - book improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia


25th rank (3rd result page) - book software development education Indian Computer Science academia


33rd rank (4th result page) - book indian software development higher education reform



27th rank (3rd result page) - book improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia


35th rank (4th result page) - book software engineering education Indian Computer Science academia


29th rank (3rd result page) - book indian software engineering higher education reform


24th rank (3rd result page) - Indian computer science academic reform


68th rank (7th result page) - indian software engineering academic reform


88th rank (9th result page) - indian software development academic reform


18th rank (2nd result page) - improve practice of software development in Indian Computer Science academia


36th rank (4th result page) - improve teaching of software development in Indian Computer Science academia


35th rank (4th result page) - improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia


63rd rank (7th result page) - improve software engineering practice in Indian Computer Science academia


70th rank (7th result page) - improve teaching of software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia


82nd rank (9th result page) - improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia


72nd rank (8th result page) - book computer science academic reform



39th rank (4th result page) - book software engineering academic reform


27th rank (3rd result page) - book software development academic reform
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Now I don't know whether any activist working in the area of improving software development practice in Computer Science or Information Technology academia (Indian or of academia of other countries), will read some parts of this book and will think it worthy of being cited in his/her research work. But I think I have done my bit for my former professional field of software development by doing the book release work, including the full text release on Google Books, to help such activists easily come across my book through Google search or Google Scholar search using relevant search terms like the ones mentioned above.

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