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Google Scholar Citations…Own Your Profile!
Linda GallowaySyracuse University Libraries
Day of FITSiSchool at Syracuse University
April 18, 2015
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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
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• 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
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Google Scholar Citations
• Free• Fast• Functional• User-Friendly
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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
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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
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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**
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*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
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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**
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**Repository Sites
• Figshare –
• Slideshare – presentations, documents, videos• F1000Posters• Academic social networking tools • Discipline-specific repositories
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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
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What to Track?
• Articles• Books • Presentations• Blog posts (?)• Other forms of scholarly communication
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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
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Questions and Discussion
Linda GallowaySyracuse University Libraries