Make the Most of Google Scholar

Google Scholar Profiles offer authors an easy method to highlight their scholarly output. You may look up who is citing your work, chart citation trends over time, and calculate a variety of citation metrics. In order for your profile to show up in Google Scholar results when others search for your name, you may also make your profile public.

• Go to Google Scholar .
• Click on Sign In in the upper right corner of the top navigation menu.
• Log in with a Google account, and click next. (If you don't have a Google account you can set one up by using either a Gmail account or any email you would like associated with your Google Scholar Profile.
• Fill in the form on the next page with your name, area of interest, and home page. This information is what will be used to associate your published articles with your account and track your citation metrics.
• To help people find you when searching a subject area, add keywords that are pertinent to your area of interest in research.
• Select your articles from the populated list. This list is automatically generated by Google and is based on the articles that are associated with your name.
• Select your update options. You have the choice to manually add your articles or have Google populate your profile on a regular basis.

You will receive groupings of articles from Google Scholar that they consider to be yours. Choose any group that contains your creations. Click "Search articles" to do a search and add your articles one at a time if you don't see them in a group. To proceed to the next step, click the blue arrow at the upper left corner of the page.
You could not want some articles from the article groups to appear on your profile, as was already explained. These can be newsletter articles or books that don't relate to your area of interest right now. They might also contain writings by authors other than you. After you've made your account, you can manually erase those.

In the event that you just created your profile, it is private. By selecting the pencil next to your name and ticking the "Make my profile public" box in the pop-up window, you can change the visibility of your profile. By clicking the pencil symbol next to your name, you can change your profile back to private at any moment.

You should make use of the co-authorship network that Google Scholar has built in, even though your profile is officially finished. In a challenge, adding co-authors will be helpful later on when we set up automatic alerts that can help you keep up with new research in your field. Adding co-authors is a good way to let others know you're now on Google Scholar.
Locate the "Co-authors" section on the right side of your profile, immediately below the "Cited bar" bar graph, to add a proposed co-author. To the right of "Co-authors," select "EDIT." You can look for your co-authors using the window that appears. If they have a Google Scholar profile, you can add them to your list of co-authors by clicking the plus symbol next to their name.