Wednesday, March 18, 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

Firstly, I was happy to see that Google Scholar search on related search terms gives result link to Google Books page of the recently released book, "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. Clicking on the result link takes the user to pages having part or whole of the search terms.

Note that earlier, just 3 days back on 15th March, Google Scholar search showed [CITATION] entry for above book but NOT the Google Books page for it. For more see my previous post: 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, https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2020/03/google-scholar-search-indian-cs-it.html.

After the above happy observation, I was simply stunned to see that for many related search terms (used in previous post mentioned above), the result ranks have improved significantly! How did that happen - I wonder! Perhaps it took some time for Google Scholar to get all the indexing info. and result ranking stuff up to date with the full text of the book put up on Google Books.

Note that there still are NO (zero) citations for the book.

Some of the ranks have improved so significantly (and in just 3 days!) that I felt compelled to put up this new post having the new result ranks and associated screenshots. I am taking the pain of capturing and then including these screenshots in this post as it is clear evidence for the ranking I mention. If a future activist visits this post, say a year later, the rankings may have changed significantly (perhaps for the worse as my book may be getting some higher ranking now due to it being a recent book and that ranking may fall significantly in a year's time or even a few months' time). Then she may not believe the rankings that I have mentioned unless she sees the screenshots backing up what I have said.

All these screenshots make the post long but I consider it to be appropriate as it may be necessary to convince serious activists as well as other serious readers about the rankings I have mentioned. That may be vital in helping them to decide whether to use parts (or even whole, if they so want) of my work, for their activism or other efforts to improve teaching and practice of software development in Indian (and perhaps some other countries') computer science and information technology academia (higher education).

Given below are the result ranks for Google Books page of Indian CS & IT academic reform book and associated search terms in Google Scholar search, https://scholar.google.com, done on 18th March 2020.

Search terms with book in it

1st rank (1st result page) - book indian computer science academic reform
2nd rank (1st result page) - book indian software engineering academic reform
4th rank (1st result page) - book indian software development academic reform
18th rank (2nd result page) - book indian computer science higher education reform

Above search terms without book in it

4th rank (1st result page) - indian computer science academic reform
15th rank (2nd result page) - indian software engineering academic reform
13th rank (2nd result page) - indian software development academic reform
70th rank (7th result page) - indian computer science higher education reform

More search terms with book in it

3rd rank (1st result page) - book improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia
3rd rank (1st result page) - book software development education Indian Computer Science academia
35th rank (4th result page) - book indian software development higher education reform

6th rank (1st result page) - book improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia
13th rank (2nd result page) - book software engineering education Indian Computer Science academia
23rd rank (3rd result page) - book indian software engineering higher education reform


More search terms but without book in it

17th rank (2nd result page) - improve practice of software development in Indian Computer Science academia
29th rank (3rd result page) - improve teaching of software development in Indian Computer Science academia
17th rank (2nd result page) - improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia

38th rank (4th result page) - improve software engineering practice in Indian Computer Science academia
43rd rank (5th result page) - improve teaching of software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia
42nd rank (5th result page) - improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia

Search terms with book in it but without India or Indian

5th rank (1st result page) - book computer science academic reform
15th rank (2nd result page) - book software engineering academic reform
6th rank (1st result page) - book software development academic reform

After seeing vast improvement in search rankings in most cases above, I developed the gall to try out the following search terms and check whether my book appeared in first ten pages of results (100 result links):

Above search terms without book in it (and without India or Indian)

74th rank (8th result page) - computer science academic reform
Not listed in first 100 results (first 10 result pages) - software engineering academic reform
30th rank (3rd result page) - software development academic reform

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Given below are the associated screenshots.

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


2nd rank (1st result page) - book indian software engineering academic reform


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



18th rank (2nd result page) - book indian computer science higher education reform



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


15th rank (2nd result page) - indian software engineering academic reform


13th rank (2nd result page) - indian software development academic reform



70th rank (7th result page) - indian computer science higher education reform


3rd rank (1st result page) - book improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia


3rd rank (1st result page) - book software development education Indian Computer Science academia


35th rank (4th result page) - book indian software development higher education reform


6th rank (1st result page) - book improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia


13th rank (2nd result page) - book software engineering education Indian Computer Science academia


23rd rank (3rd result page) - book indian software engineering higher education reform


17th rank (2nd result page) - improve practice of software development in Indian Computer Science academia



29th rank (3rd result page) - improve teaching of software development in Indian Computer Science academia


17th rank (2nd result page) - improve software development in Indian Computer Science academia



38th rank (4th result page) - improve software engineering practice in Indian Computer Science academia


43rd rank (5th result page) - improve teaching of software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia


42nd rank (5th result page) - improve software engineering in Indian Computer Science academia



5th rank (1st result page) - book computer science academic reform


15th rank (2nd result page) - book software engineering academic reform


6th rank (1st result page) - book software development academic reform



74th rank (8th result page) - computer science academic reform

---No screenshot as not listed in first 100 results ---
Not listed in first 100 results (first 10 result pages) - software engineering academic reform



30th rank (3rd result page) - software development academic reform

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