Academic codes associated with research papers are valuable resources for scholars. In specialized fields outside computer science, code availability is often limited, making effective code retrieval essential. Google Scholar is a crucial academic search tool. If a code published in the paper is not retrievable via Google Scholar, its accessibility and impact are significantly reduced. This study takes the term "accelerated degradation" combined with "reliability" as an example, and finds that, for papers published by Elsevier, only GitHub links included in abstracts are comprehensively retrieved by Google Scholar. When such links appear within the main body of a paper, even in the "Data Availability" section, they may be ignored and become unsearchable. These findings highlight the importance of strategically placing GitHub links in abstracts to enhance code discoverability on Google Scholar.
翻译:与学术论文关联的研究代码是学者们的宝贵资源。在计算机科学以外的专业领域中,代码可获取性往往有限,这使得有效的代码检索至关重要。Google Scholar作为重要的学术搜索工具,若论文中发布的代码无法通过其检索到,将显著降低代码的可访问性与影响力。本研究以"加速退化"结合"可靠性"为检索词例,发现对于Elsevier出版的论文,仅包含在摘要中的GitHub链接能被Google Scholar全面检索。当此类链接出现在论文正文(即使在"数据可用性"章节)时,可能被忽略而无法被搜索到。这些发现凸显了在摘要中策略性放置GitHub链接对于提升Google Scholar代码可发现性的重要意义。