Assignment 9: Google Scholar Bibliography

These are the articles I found for Social Networking using Google Scholar:

Cross, R. & Parker, A. (2004). The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Does Get Done in Organizations. Harvard Business School Pres

Times Cited: 194

Adamic, L. & Adar, E. (2005) How to Search a Social Network. Social Networks 27 (3), 187-203.

Times Cited: 205

Lenhart, A. & Madden, M. (2008). Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Times Cited: 185

Gross, R. & Acquisti, A. (2005). Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks. ACM Workshop on Privacy Issues in Practice, 71-80.

Times Cited: 376

Lewis, K. (2008). Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New Social Network Dataset Using Facebook.com. Social Networks 30 (4) 330-342.

Times Cited: 68

Kumar, R., Novak, J., & Tomkins, A. (2006). Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 611-617.

Times Cited: 288

Mislove, A. (2007). Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks. Internet Measurement Conference on Social Networks, 29-42.

Times Cited: 321

Analysis

I thought that both Google Scholar and the KentLINK databases were pretty user-friendly. I am more familiar with Google Scholar, because I have used it to do research in the past, but both were able to help me find the information I needed. Google Scholar's style is a little less rigid and more flexible than the Kent databases. However, I liked being able to choose specifications for my search with the Kent databases. In this case it really helped that I could organize my search by number of times an article was cited or I could be more detailed about exactly what I needed to find. I did notice that the articles on Google Scholar were cited a lot more than the articles in the Kent database. I had trouble finding enough articles in the Kent database that had been cited more than five times. Overall, I received quality information from both sites and will continue to use both in the future.