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The Profile (aka Google Scholar Citations) June 2014

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Page 1: How to set up your Google Scholar profile (Google Scholar Citations)

The Profile(aka Google Scholar Citations)

June 2014

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About Google Scholar

• Search for scholarly literature (e.g. articles, theses, books, abstracts, etc)

Screenshot of features from: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

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About Google Scholar

• Search for scholarly literature (e.g. articles, theses, books, abstracts, etc)

Screenshot of features from: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

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About the Google Scholar Profile• Google Scholar Citations

– Keep track of the citations of your articles• Who is citing them• Graph over time

• Metrics

– Private/public• If public, seen in a Google Scholar search for your name!

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Searching Google Scholar

• If someone searches for you in GS, papers authored by you should come up in the search results

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• With a public GS profile, when someone searches for you, the link to your profile will appear at the top of the results page.

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• www.scholar.google.com

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• www.scholar.google.com

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• Log in using your Google account

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• Complete the required fields and as much additional information as you are willing to provide

• Note: a university ‘email for verification’ is required to appear in the search results!

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• Select your articles, either by groups or individually

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• Select your articles, either by groups or individually

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Metrics: Citation indices

• Citations: how many times someone has cited your article– All: over the whole of your career– Since 2008: in the past 5 years (i.e. recent citations)

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Metrics: Citation indices

• H index: the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations

i.e. The H-index here is 6 as this academic has 6 papers with at least 6 citations

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Metrics: Citation indices

• i10 index: the number of publications that have at least 10 citations

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Adding an article manually

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Adding an article manually

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Your completed public profile

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Thank you

[email protected]@SarahGoodier

http://openuct.uct.ac.za@OpenUCT

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