Scholarly Impact: Google Scholar

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Google Scholar is best known for retrieving scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources but creating a Google Scholar profile has some benefits.

• Increasing your findability with SEO (search engine optimization)
  • Searches for your name show up as the first result
• Collect your work in one place for other researchers to find
• Track citations of your work automatically
• Share with readers by allowing them to "Follow" you and receive notifications of your new publications

A typical Google Scholar profile

 

Create Your Profile

1. Sign into Google Scholar using your Google Account.
2. Click at the top left of the page.
   1. The three bar icon, referred to as a "hamburger," also accesses My Profile as well as Alerts and Metrics.
3. From here you can:
   • Set up your initial profile.
   • Edit your profile information, including photo and research interests.
   • Manage your publications.

Edit Your Profile

1. Click .
2. Click the pencil icon to make changes to your profile information.
3. Add your university affiliation and your Mercer email address (this is needed to verify your scholar profile)
4. For Homepage use your Mercer profile
   1. Mercer Law Faculty profiles
5. Add a photo by clicking on the placeholder profile picture and then uploading a photo from your computer.
6. Be sure to check "Make my profile public"
   1. This makes is easier for people to find you and read your scholarship.

Add Publications

Even before you created your profile Google was indexing your work. You will be shown a list of publications Google Scholar thinks belong to you. You do need to review the list and select those you want added to your profile.

If you have a common name, there will probably be some publications in the list that don’t belong to you. There may also be items you don’t want on your profile. Maybe the item it not a scholarly article or does not reflect your current research interest. You can control the content of your profile.

1. Review the publications list and deselect unwanted items.
2. Click the grey “Add” button at the top of your profile.
3. Confirm you want Google to automatically add new publications to your profile in the future.
   1. Again with common names, the system might add publications you didn’t author.
   2. If you don't want items added automatically, you will receive a monthly email asking you to confirm new items.

Add Missing Articles

Google Scholar may have missed an item you would like to appear in your profile. It will have to be added manually.

1. Click on the + mark icon in the gray bar under your profile image

 

 

2. Select "Add article manually"
3. Add as much descriptive information as possible. This improves the likelihood that Google Scholar will find citations to your work.
4. Save by clicking on the checkmark at the top of the box.

Email Alerts

Get notified if your paper is cited or if someone else has published a new work

•  Tips on getting email alerts