Feature | Type | Strength | Comments | References |
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Speed of results | UI | 3 | Notable in Google preferers | 2 |
Access to older articles | Content | 8 | Notable in SPIRES | |
Ease of interface | UI | 8 | Appears in realtion to many systems - trivial requirement, but impossibly to satisfy everyone... | |
Citation chain searching | Feature | 7 | This is different from counting, rather using citation as a means of discovering other articles | |
Up to date/current papers now | Content | 8 | Notable in arXiv | |
Completeness of coverage | Content | 8 | ||
Create latex/bibtex bibliography | Feature | 6 | 42 | |
Wide multi-disciplinary coveerage | Content | 3 | 58 | |
Ancillary information about article | Content | 3 | 82 | |
Accessibility of search results | Other | 4 | Some seem to prefer less results, if they know they can read the results (OA) | 232 |
Signal to Noise Ratio | Content | 3 | ||
Citations | Feature | 5 | Using this to refer to people who just pecified "citations" WE know that many people like cite counts, but maybe few admit it... | 546 |
Responsive Staff/Maintenance | Other | 3 | 711 |