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Researcher Identification: Google Scholar

ORCID, Researcher ID, Scopus Author ID (tba), Google Scholar

Why should I create a Google Scholar profile?

BENEFITS

Creating a Google Scholar Profile offers several benefits:

  • Collect your work in one place for other researchers to find

  • Track citations of your work automatically

  • Allow users to "Follow" you and receive notifications of your new publications

  • Scholar automatically generates your H-score and updates it as new articles are cited

  • You can check to see who is citing your publications.

Creating your Google Scholar Citation profile will make sure that Google Scholar will easily and accurately group all the citations of your publications into one pool.  A profile generally lists your name, chosen keywords of research interest, generated citation metrics, and citations (including links to citing articles).

Link directly to Google Scholar

ORCID import

IMPORT GOOGLE SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS TO ORCID

ORCID has created a tool that allows you to import citations from BibTeX (.bib) files into your ORCID record, including files exported from Google Scholar and other popular citation management tools.

How to create a profile

CREATE A GOOGLE SCHOLAR PROFILE

  1. Sign in to your Google account, or create one if you don't have one.
  2. After you sign in, go to 'My profile', - top left on the page.
  3. The sign up form will ask you to confirm the spelling of your name, to enter your affiliation, etc.
  4. On the next page, you will see a list of articles. Add the articles that are yours.
  5. Once you're done with adding articles, it will ask you 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.
  6. Finally, you will see your profile.Once you are satisfied with the results, make your profile public.

THE RESPONSIBILITY IS YOURS. This guide is intended for inspiration and general guidance and therefore does not replace personal, legal, or academic advice. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with applicable regulations.