Abstract

It is intuitively clear that search for scientific publications often has many characteristics of exploratory search. The purpose of this paper is to formalize this intuitive understanding, explore which scientific search tasks can be classified as research search ones, what general approaches to the research search problem exist, and how they are implemented in specialized search engines for scientists. We overview the existing works that address the information-seeking behavior of scientists and a special variant of search called exploratory search. There are several types of search behavior typical for scientists; we show that most of them are exploratory ones. Exploratory search differs from information retrieval and requires special support from the search systems. We analyze seventeen search systems for academicians (from Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science to ResearchGate) from the perspective of exploratory search support. We find that most of them do not go far beyond simple information retrieval, and there is room for further improvements, especially in collaborative search support.

中文翻译：

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探索性搜索科学文章

摘要

从直觉上很明显，对科学出版物的搜索通常具有探索性搜索的许多特征。本文的目的是正式化这种直观的理解，探索哪些科学搜索任务可以归类为研究搜索任务，存在哪些解决研究搜索问题的通用方法，以及如何在针对科学家的专业搜索引擎中实现这些任务。我们概述了解决科学家的信息寻求行为的现有作品以及一种名为探索性搜索的特殊搜索形式。科学家通常有几种类型的搜索行为。我们证明其中大多数是探索性的。探索性搜索与信息检索不同，并且需要搜索系统的特殊支持。我们为院士分析了17种搜索系统（来自Google学术搜索，Scopus和Web of Science到ResearchGate）。我们发现，它们中的大多数并不仅限于简单的信息检索，而且还有进一步改进的空间，尤其是在协作搜索支持中。