Use Google Scholar Citations to showcase and promote your academic products. By claiming and populating your profile, researchers all over the world can become aware of your work.

1. Google Scholar Citations…
Own Your Profile!
Linda Galloway
Syracuse University Libraries
Day of FITS
iSchool at Syracuse University
April 18, 2015

2. Academic Social Networks
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Linkedin
Mendeley
ImpactStory
ORCID
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

3. • 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

4. Google Scholar Citations
• Free
• Fast
• Functional
• User-Friendly

5. 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

6. 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

8. Best Practices
BEFORE Creating Profile
1. Begin with the most unambiguous data
available*
2. Choose a good, professional, yet personalized
photo for the profile image
3. Make sure all the scholarly outputs you want
discovered are discoverable using the best
tools available**

9. *Valid data = Valid metrics
Accurate 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

10. Best Practices
BEFORE Creating Profile
1. Begin with the most unambiguous data
available*
2. Choose a good, professional, yet personalized
photo for the profile image
3. Make sure all the scholarly outputs you
want discovered are discoverable using the
best tools available**

11. **Repository Sites
• Figshare –
• Slideshare – presentations, documents, videos
• F1000Posters
• Academic social networking tools
• Discipline-specific repositories

12. 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

13. What to Track?
• Articles
• Books
• Presentations
• Blog posts (?)
• Other forms of scholarly communication

14. • www.scholar.google.com

21. 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

22. Questions and Discussion
Linda Galloway
Syracuse University Libraries