Google Scholar
Pro – very large
Pro – most cited articles tend to appear first
Con – recent articles will not appear unless the publication date is limited (e.g. Since 2020)
Con – only a fraction of the results will be from peer-reviewed journals (no way to limit to this)
Con – only an even smaller fraction will be empirical studies (no way to limit to this)
Con – only about 400 results are actually available (despite the number posted at the top of the page)
Con – not a political science database
Con – can’t search by subject or abstract and no truncation or Boolean operators
Google Scholar example - women and politics and the United States

