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Researcher e-Visibility: Google Scholar Profile

This guide assists researchers with creating and maintaining an online presence in different ways e.g. creating researcher identifiers i.e.ORCID and by using Social Media tools.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR PROFILE

Google Scholar Profiles allows authors to showcase their academic publications and citations. It is free and easy to set up, especially if you already have a Google account.  The profile itself shows your list of publications in Google Scholar with basic metrics. Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly publications and allows searching from one place covering many disciplines and sources i.e articles, book chapters, books, abstracts, posters, patents, technical reports and court opinions. Content are from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

CREATING A GOOGLE SCHOLAR PROFILE

You will need a Gmail account in order to create a Google Scholar profile.

For more information on creating a Google Scholar profile etc. check the below links:

Remember that the Google Scholar database does not have set inclusion parameters (e.g. journals, date ranges). Researchers should regularly check their own profile for duplicates, omissions and errors.

Citation counts and indices should not be compared between disciplines.

Google Scholar Indices

H-Index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h new citations in the last 5 years.

i10-Index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the number of publications that have received at least 10 new citations in the last 5 years.

IMPORTING PUBLICATIONS FROM GOOGLE SCHOLAR INTO ORCID

1) GOOGLE SCHOLAR

  • Log in to your Google Scholar Profile. If you do not have a Google Scholar Profile - go to Google Scholar Profile Setup
  • Select the articles you want to export to by clicking the check box next to each article. To select all articles from the profile list, select the check box at the top of the list.
  • Select "Export" and the select the BibTeX format, save the file to your computer..

2)  ORCID

  • Log in to your ORCID profile.
  • Start from the Works section, go to Add works, select Import BibTex.
  • Click Choose File to open the file menu, then select the BibTeX (.bib) file you want to import.
  • The publications from the file will appear in a list. Select save or delete publications.
  • The publications from the file will appear in a list.
  • Select save (“disk” icon), delete ("trash can" icon), or save all to add all of the publications at once. If necessary, you can edit the metadata of the publication.