Google Scholar Citations…Own Your Profile!

Linda GallowaySyracuse University Libraries

Day of FITSiSchool at Syracuse University

April 18, 2015

Academic Social Networks

Academia.eduResearchGate

LinkedinMendeley

ImpactStoryORCID

Google Scholar Citations

Van Noorden, R. (2014). Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature, 512(7513), 126–129. http://doi.org/10.1038/512126a

• Searches scholarly literature from one convenient place • Explore related works, citations, authors, and

publications • Locate the complete document through your library or

on the web • Keep up with recent developments in any area of

research • Check who's citing your publications, create a public

author profile

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

Google Scholar Citations

• Free• Fast• Functional• User-Friendly

About Google Scholar Citations

–Keep track of the citations of your articles• Who is citing them• Graph over time• Metrics

–Private/public• If public, your profile can appear in search

results

Metrics?Google Scholar calculates these metrics:

Citations - the total number of citations to all articles by the individual author profiled

h-index - the number of a scholar’s papers, h, that have been cited at least h times by other publications

i10-index - is a metric created by Google and is the number of articles with more than ten citations

Best Practices

BEFORE Creating Profile1. Begin with the most unambiguous data

available*2. Choose a good, professional, yet personalized

photo for the profile image3. Make sure all the scholarly outputs you want

discovered are discoverable using the best tools available**

*Valid data = Valid metricsAccurate attribution and discovery of research products

is the most important consideration for all authors.

• Always publish under precisely the same name• Scholarly authors are assigned many identifiers such as

Scopus Author ID, Web of Science Researcher ID, institutional ID’s

• Scholars should register for an ORCID - Open Researcher Identifier – this ID is supported by many publishers & platforms

Best Practices

BEFORE Creating Profile1. Begin with the most unambiguous data

available*2. Choose a good, professional, yet personalized

photo for the profile image3. Make sure all the scholarly outputs you

want discovered are discoverable using the best tools available**

**Repository Sites

• Figshare –

• Slideshare – presentations, documents, videos• F1000Posters• Academic social networking tools • Discipline-specific repositories

Best Practices BEFORE Creating Profile

4. Claim your Google Scholar Citations profile after uploading all research products to a repository site

5. Use the Follow link embedded in your profile to receive alerts when your documents are cited

6. Periodically monitor your profile to check for additions, errors, and missing data Galloway, L.M. & Rauh, A.E. (2014). Using Google Scholar Citations

to Profile Scholars' Work. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. http://DOI:10.5062/F4319SWZ

What to Track?

• Articles• Books • Presentations• Blog posts (?)• Other forms of scholarly communication

• www.scholar.google.com

Google Scholar Citations

• Allow researchers to connect with other experts and collaborators

• Self-populates scholar’s library of works & permits users to add content to their profile

• If profile is public – author appears in Scholar search results

• Automatically calculates & displays citation metrics

• Great way to own your scholarly identity

Questions and Discussion

Linda GallowaySyracuse University Libraries