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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by gpm on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:47PM (#33126683)
Unfortunately, I don't think that works at all. Not all universities use education specific TLDs, and not all departments/labs in universities with a domain name under an education specific TLD actually keep there website under that TLD.

Completely random example of such a lab (and if you check publications you'll see they host papers under this domain name) https://www.honeylab.org/

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:04PM (#33126838)
Is this domain excluded in Google Scholar searches.
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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by gpm on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:28PM (#33127091)
That one in particular? No clue. I'm not sure what google scholar's criteria are.

I know things on utoronto.ca turn up sometimes for a example that does (UofTs non-edu domain name, which is used for most things. Though toronto.edu is also owned by the university and used for some things).

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:43PM (#33127230)
TLD alone would certainly not be enough of a filter. Scholar has to account for scientific publishers that use TLDs like .com and .org and other non-school websites that use ccTLDs.

But Scholar proves it is possible to usefully filter for peer-reviewed papers.

Filtering is never "perfect". The question is whether it is good enough to be useful.

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