Google Scholar is a great place to begin your research, but it does come with its own set of pros and cons.

 

Google Scholar Strengths	Google Scholar Weaknesses
Getting the “big picture” of the scholarly discourse around a topic. Viewing books, articles, conference proceedings, and more in one list. Determining authors and publications in an area of interest. Tracking down incomplete citations.	Limiting and sorting results by type (eg. peer reviewed articles, full-text, reviews). Searching within a specific discipline Browsing by journal title. Doing a comprehensive search for a literature review. Using controlled vocabulary to search by subject. Emailing lists of search results.

Table 1. Google Strengths & Weaknesses, from NYU Libraries. Advanced Google Searching: Google Scholar. NYU Libraries. New York University. 29 Nov 2017.<https://guides.nyu.edu/googlescholar>.