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scholar.google.com is where you want to go.
Also, in my Google-fu experience technical terms work well for finding better scholarly results.
Same experience I have had. Swapping to scholar gets me relevant results that aren't filled with ai gibberish and backwater Hokum. Still have to be careful about study sizes and sigma values and applicability, but miles ahead for at least getting to that being my issue.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/
Your scholarly ways are not safe from AI gibberish.
Yes this is absurd, but it's a (serious) scientific community issue, not a search engine issue.
Putting scientific in the search criteria should redirect there then.
At the very least, it might be nice if they ask you if you want to go there instead.
On the other hand, I'm just happy that Google Scholar hasn't gotten completely destroyed by SEO yet.
Bro, the works cited is the SEO.
What’s the scientific term for rocks?
In fairness, I was thinking specifically of plants. I expect better results when looking up "S. lycopersicum" than "tomato".
An example off the top of my head is saying pyrite instead of fool's gold.
I still remember trying to find the space group for Copper Telluride. No amount of technical terms could help me there.
P6/mmm?
Iirc, yed