There are two apparent advantages (especially for non-Chinese speakers) of searching for Chinese articles in Google Scholar. Firstly, Google Scholar (Chinese interface) provides 'pinyin search', i.e. using a standardised Romanised form of Chinese, known as pinyin in Chinese [24] . For example, if I type 'bing du' in the Google Scholar English interface, I will obtain journal articles with authors of the family name Bing Du. However, if I use the Chinese In additional to these functions, Google Scholar also provides links to institutional libraries and the British Library, citation records, links to related articles, and it groups different entries of the same article together. For a more structured search, the Advanced Scholar Search is needed, of which a Chinese interface is also available [25] .