September 30, 2025Open Access

Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion

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Blog posts can be classified as articles in Google Scholar if cited, raising questions about academic credibility.
The classification may undermine the importance of peer review, which is traditionally a hallmark of scholarly articles.
Cited blog posts frequently lack digital preservation, making them vulnerable to loss through unstable URLs.
This situation highlights the need for guidelines on digital content's academic standing and preservation methods.

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This observation reveals that blog posts, when cited, may hold the status of articles in Google Scholar, suggesting potential issues in digital preservation and peer review standards.

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When checking out my Google Scholar profile today, I noticed that, if a blog post is cited, it will be counted as an article by Google Scholar. This is interesting for several perhaps conflicting reasons: These items are (often) not digitally preserved and have unstable URLs These items are not peer reviewed (does this matter?

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Martin Paul Eve (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dc27558a7d58c25ebb39dd https://doi.org/10.59348/bct08-qh808

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This observation reveals that blog posts, when cited, may hold the status of articles in Google Scholar, suggesting potential issues in digital preservation and peer review standards.

Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion

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Google Scholar will count a blog post as an article if it's cited: a preservation suggestion

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