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18 Google Scholar tips all students should know

An illustration of a person with glasses and long hair sitting in a library at a desk. They’re laptop is open and they’re typing; a coffee cup, a stack of books and a lamp sit farther back on the desk.

Related searches can help you find what you’re looking for.

A Google Scholar search results page for “cancer.” After four search results, there is a section of Related searches, including breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, cancer chemotherapy and ovarian cancer.

Install the Scholar Button Chrome browser extension to access Google Scholar from anywhere on the web.

A screenshot of a Google Search results landing page, with the Scholar Button extension clicked. The user has searched for “breast cancer” within Google Search; that term is also searched in the Google Scholar extension. The extension shows three relevant articles from Google Scholar.

In the Cited by page for New York Times Company v. Sullivan, court cases with three bars next to their name heavily reference the original case. One bar indicates less reliance.

A screenshot of the “Cited by” page for U.S. Supreme Court case New York Times Company v. Sullivan. The Cited by page shows four different cases; two of them have three bars filled in, indicating they rely heavily on New York Times Company v. Sullivan; the other two cases only have one bar filled in, indicating less reliance on New York Times Company v. Sullivan.
The Google Scholar home page. The quote at the bottom reads: “Stand on the shoulders of giants.”

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