Google Scholar creates a personal profile listing your publications and citation metrics, and is useful for research outputs not indexed in Scopus or Web of Science.
A Google Scholar profile is easy to set up and easy to maintain.
Strengths & Benefits
- heavily used by students, researchers and members of the public looking for scholarly literature
- Coverage of Book & book chapter citations and Non-Traditional Research
- Easy to Setup
- Publicly viewable
- No subscription needed
- Publication list can be downloaded
- Easily merge ‘Stray Citations’
Limitations
- Inflated citation results (not just peer reviewed counts but any web mention)
- Specific coverage details unavailable (the quality of citations has been questioned)
- Dirty Data (erroneous attribution & phantom publications).
- Older, non-digital items may be excluded
To get the most from your profile:
- Clean up your Profile data and don’t automatically update
- Add missing publications to your Profile
- Make your profile public
- Add & verify your University email address
- Stay up-to-date when you’ve been cited by following yourself to receive alerts on when you are cited
- Link your Google scholar profile to your other profiles eg. ORCiD