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arXiv as an alternative to Google Scholar is a bit misleading, since

1. arXiv does not feature any sort of metrics (h-index, citations count) for the author(s) and

2. Probably no author's complete list of non-informal publications would be available on arXiv, which is why it may not be the place to look for some obscure paper of said author(s).

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I'd suggest Semantic Scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/) as an alternative to Google Scholar. It's maintained by the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and has many useful features (both metrics based and more interesting things like tracing idea influence).

Yeah, it's kind of silly really. Google scholar feeds off the arxiv.

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