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Google Scholar Profile

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.

Google Scholar Basic Profile  Google Scholar Advanced Profile  Google Scholar Maintain Profile

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