Finance: Google Scholar - Beginner

This page sets out the steps involved to create a basic Google Scholar profile. Once you've completed these steps, check out the advanced profile options and how to maintain your profile.

To create a profile you will need to sign in to your Google account or create one if you don’t already have one. You can use a personal account, not an account at your employer, so that you can keep your profile for as long as you wish.

Already have an Account?

Click on ‘My Profile’ to set up your Google Scholar Profile. This is also where you can edit your profile in the future.

There are 3 steps involved

1. Completing your profile details
2. Adding your publications
3. Defining your settings

Basic Profile should include

• Name
• Affiliation
• Email Address
• Publications

Complete your Profile details.

• Enter your University email address in the ‘Email for verification’ field, so that your affiliation can be verified and therefore your profile will be eligible for inclusion in Google Scholar search results (your email address will not display on your public profile).
• For a more advanced profile add in Keywords to describe your areas of interest
• Add a link to your personal Webpage or your University Academic Profile Online (APO)
• Click ‘Next’.

On the next page, you’ll see groups of articles written by people with names similar to yours.

• You can either, click “Add all articles” next to each article group, or click “See all articles” to only add specific articles from that group.
• If you don’t see your articles in these groups, click “Search articles” to do a regular Google Scholar search, and then add your articles one at a time.
• Feel free to do as many searches as you like.

Once you've added all your articles, you will be asked what to do when the article data changes in Google Scholar.

• You can either have the updates applied to your profile automatically, or you can choose to review them beforehand. In either case, you can always go to your profile and make changes.
• The Library recommends you select the option “email me updates for review” to avoid dirty data populating your profile and having to do regular checks.

Select ‘Make my profile public’

(To be eligible for inclusion in Google Scholar search results, your profile needs to be public and needs to have a verified email address at your university).

NOTE:

Google recommends:

that you ‘Apply Updates Automatically’ as it will capture your publications as they become available in the search engine. In this case you will need to check your profile regularly to ensure articles by similarly named authors are not incorrectly attributed to you, and vice versa!

The Library recommends:

you select the option “email me updates for review” to avoid having to do a regular check and prevent incorrect records being attrbuted to you