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Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102629, PP. 1-8

Subject Areas: Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Library, Intelligence and Philology, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Information Science

Keywords: Abduction, Reverse Entailment, Top-Down Research, Interdisciplinary Research, Google Scholar

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Abstract

Researchers long ago demonstrated that top-down, inference-based approaches to research have comfortably co-existed with more traditional bottom-up, hypotheses-driven research. Yet most faculty omit any mention of top-down approaches in direct instruction or training of students, despite these approaches being both relatively common, occasionally necessary, and considerably more efficient than traditional bottom-up research. The growing sophistication of search engine algorithms, like those used by Google Scholar, makes possible highly efficient, inter-disciplinary top-down research. This article explores both the existence and operation of top-down approaches to research in the sciences and the ways in which Google Scholar could work with top-down research strategies to transform collaboration and inter-disciplinary research, particularly in the sciences.

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Douglas, Y. (2016). Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?. Open Access Library Journal, 3, e2629. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1102629.

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