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CRICOS Provider 00115M

CRICOS Provider 00115M

Using Google Scholar to measure the impact of

your research

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• Provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles

• Check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics

• Set up a profile and make it public, it’s quick to set up and simple to maintain!

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Getting started

• Get started with Google Scholar Citations:

• http://scholar.google.com

• My Citations (top right hand of page)

• Login to your Google email account or Sign Up

• Create your author profile and make your profile public!

• Help is available

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Updating your citation records

• Your citation metrics and graph are automatically updated as Google Scholar updates

• To automatically update your articles, select Profile updates from the Actions menu and update settings

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Exploring citations to your articles

• Check Cited by to see who is citing your articles

• Click the title of the article to see the citation graph

• Check new citations to your articles under Follow new citations

• Create alerts to new cites to your articles under the Cited by number, click the envelope icon on the left

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Help!

Google Scholar Help

Citation Analysis Guide

latrobe.libguides.com/citationanalysis

Contact your Faculty Librarian