If there are parentheses in a reference title, Google Scholar link does not work.
For example for the reference:
Jaffé, R., and R. F. A. Moritz. "Mating flights select for symmetry in honeybee drones (Apis mellifera)." Naturwissenschaften 97 (2010): 337-343.
the search phrase is:
"Mating+flights+select+for+symmetry+in+honeybee+drones+(Apis+mellifera)" autor:Jaffé
and should be:
"Mating+flights+select+for+symmetry+in+honeybee+drones+Apis+mellifera" autor:Jaffé

Adam

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rjerome’s picture

rjerome commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for pointing that out... It's fixed now.

http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=454196

Ron.

not2smart’s picture

not2smart commented

Thank you.

I am not an google search expert but I think all "+" characters can be removed as well.
According to the search tips:
http://scholar.google.pl/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch.html
the phrase should be only in quotes.
I have noticed that all non alpha characters in the phrase are ignored, therefore, the search works.

"+" means something different and should be used without quotes

the "+" operator makes sure your results include common words, letters or numbers that Google's search technology generally ignores, as in [+de knuth];

Quotation marks can be removed from the title as well because this can affect the search.

Adam

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rjerome commented

I'm not so sure about that one. I believe they are referring to the text you put in their search form, however, if you look at the url that gets created from the advanced search form, I think you will see "+" between the words. I had to reverse engineer the URL string from the output of that form.

not2smart’s picture

not2smart commented

Now the links work, this is most important.
The other changes are not essential.
Adam

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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