what criteria are used to rank results in google scholar
Google Scholar While most academic databases and search engines allow users to select one factor (e.g. relevance, citation counts, or publication date) to rank results, Google Scholar ranks results with a combined ranking algorithm in a "way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature".[16] Research has shown that Google Scholar puts high weight especially on citation counts[21] and words included in a document's title.[22] As a consequence, the first search results are often highly cited articles.
McGill University Internationally, McGill ranked 32nd in the world and 2nd in Canada in the 2018 QS World University Rankings.[134] It was ranked 42nd in the world by the 2016-2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings[135] and 63rd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2016.[136] Times Higher Education also ranked McGill 18th in the world in its 2016 Global Employability University Rankings.[137] In the 2011 Emerging/Trendence Global Employability Ranking, McGill was ranked the 19th finest in the world, and 1st in Canada, for popularity among major employers.[138] In the 2008 College Prowler Online rankings for Academics at North American universities, McGill earned an A- for Academics; making it the only Canadian school to achieve a grade above a B-.[139]