Claim your Google Scholar profile and make it public.
If you have already claimed your profile, take a moment to review it. Is it up-to-date with your most recent publications? Collaborators? Keywords?
What’s next: Make sure that you regularly review and update your Google Scholar Profile.
More information about Research Impact can be found at go.osu.edu/researchimpact
Adapted under a CC-BY 4.0 license from The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Raising the Profile of your Research
by Stacy Konkiel, published by Impactstory.org
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Google Scholar is a database where researchers can search for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. Researchers can also find who is citing your publications and create a public author profile. Google also calculates a platform-dependent h-index.
Go to Google Scholar and click the “My Profile” link at the top of the page to get your account set up.
On the first screen, add your affiliation information and university email address so that Google Scholar can confirm your account. Add keywords that are relevant to your research interests, so others can find you when browsing a subject area. Provide a link to your university profile page, if appropriate. Click “Next."
Google has likely already been indexing your work. If so, Google Scholar will provide you with a list of publications that it thinks belong to you. You’ll need to review the list of publications that it suggests are yours and select which ones you want to add to your profile.
Beware: If you have a common name, it’s likely that some publications in this list will not belong to you.
Read through the publications list and select the publications to add to your profile. Then click the blue arrow at the top of your profile to proceed to the next page.
Next, determine how you want Google Scholar to add new publications to your profile in the future, automatically or after you have reviewed possible updates.
Your profile is private if you’ve just created it. Change your profile visibility by checking the box next to "Make my profile public.”
You can also choose to get emails from Google Scholar about articles related to your research and new citations to your articles.
Click Done to create your profile
To add a suggested co-author, find the “Add Co-authors” section on the top right-hand section of your profile, and then click the plus-sign next to each co-author you want to add. You can also add other co-authors by clicking Edit in the Co-Author section of the profile in the right-hand column.
If there are articles that Google Scholar didn’t automatically add to your profile, they will need to be added manually. Within your profile, click the plus sign in the header row of the publications table. In the drop-down menu, you can choose the following options: Add article groups, Add articles, and Add Article manually.
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