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Exploiting Google Scholar to Raise Profile and Keep Up-to-date

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Google Scholar is a service that I really like and find extremely useful, and for the last 12 months or so there has been a little used feature that allows anyone publishing research to get much more from it – Author Profiles. 

To set up a profile, you just need to log into Google Scholar with a Google email address and fill in a few details. Then, Scholar will suggest papers that might be yours which you can add to your profile, and you can search and add other papers that weren’t automatically picked up. Once you have done this, you can get Scholar to verify your academic email account by sending you a link to click on. Having done this, you now have a public profile with a list of your papers and their citations on Google Scholar. It’s a great way to keep track of who is citing your work, but is it worth spending some time on?

 

Well, with a public profile when someone searches for your name on Scholar a link to the profile appears at the very top of the results. This makes you much more prominent in search results, especially if you have a name that can be confused with other people. (I’m going to use Dr. Anton Cox from the Mathematics department for the examples in this post – but my own is on there too).

Searching Google Scholar for Anton Cox shows his profile at the top of the results

 

Having a profile also turns your name into a link in the list of authors for a particular entry in the search results. Clicking this link also opens up your profile, therefore highlighting your other work.

Links to Author Profiles are underlined in search results

 

Finally, having a profile makes it very easy to track the work of other authors with a profile. This means that if someone whose work you are interested in publishes a new paper or gets a new citation an email can be sent to you automatically. Really handy for keeping up-to-date with others in the field.

 

But what does a profile look like? The image below shows Anton’s, but as you can see there is a photo (optional), some information about Anton, a few statistics about his citations a list of co-authors with profiles, the list of papers with links for further information and options to export bibliographic details.

Anton Cox’s profile

 

This is all very easy to set up and has the potential to increase your research profile, show the range of work you have published, alert you to new citations, and help you keep up-to-date with other people working in your field(s). As I write there are only 45 authors registered to City, but I personally think that it is worth the 5 minutes it takes to set up a profile to help increase the prominence of staff and research students.

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