Google Scholar How Do I Make It Private Again

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This week we're going to dig into the research platform that'due south most often used by researchers: Google Scholar .

Google Scholar is a popular manner to showcase your papers and the citations they've received. Google Scholar likewise calculates a platform-dependent h-index, which many researchers love to track (for better or for worse).

In this week'south claiming, we're going to get you onto Google Scholar, so you can up your scholarly SEO (aka "Googleability"), more easily share your publications with new readers, and detect new citations to your work.

Step one: Create your basic profile

Log on to scholar.google.com and click the "My Contour" link at the top of the folio to get your account setup started.

On the get-go screen, add your affiliation information and OU email address, so Google Scholar can confirm your account. Add keywords that are relevant to your research interests, so others can find you when browsing a field of study area. Provide a link to your OU kinesthesia or lab  homepage, if y'all take ane.

If there are others who share your name, their articles may evidence up as yours at this bespeak. Don't despair! Go ahead and add together those articles, even though they're not yours. You lot volition and so take a chance to delete them in the next step (and every bit function of this week's homework).

Click "Side by side," and – that's it! Your bones profile is washed. At present, allow'south add some publications to information technology.

Footstep ii: Add publications

Google has likely already been indexing your work for some time at present as part of their mission as a scholarly search engine, and so this stride is pretty easy..

Google Scholar will provide you with groups of articles they believe belong to you. Select any group that is your piece of work. If you don't see your articles in a group, click "Search manufactures" to do a search, and add together your articles i at a time. Click the blueish pointer at the top left of the page to move on to the adjacent footstep.

As mentioned above, in that location may be publications in the article groups that you do not want included on your profile. These may include newsletter items or articles that do not reflect your current inquiry involvement. They may also include manufactures from researchers other than yourself. You tin manually delete those after you have created your account.

Your profile is now near complete! Two more steps: add a photo by clicking your avatar next to your name and contour information, and set your private profile to "Public."

Step 3: Brand your contour public

Your profile is private if yous've just created information technology. You lot can alter your profile visibility past clicking the pencil icon adjacent to your name and checking "Make my profile public" in the window that appears. If, at any time, yous want to revert your contour to private over again, you tin do so past clicking the pencil icon next to your name.

Bonus: Add together co-authors

While your profile is technically complete, you'll want to take advantage of Google Scholar'southward congenital-in co-authorship network. Adding co-authors is a good way to allow others know y'all're now on Google Scholar, and will be useful afterwards on in a claiming, when nosotros fix up automatic alerts that tin can help you lot stay on summit of new research in your field.

To add together a suggested co-writer, observe the "Co-authors" section on the right-hand section of your profile just underneath the "Cited bar" bar graph. Click "EDIT" to the right of "Co-authors." In the window that appears, y'all can search for your co-authors. If they have a Google scholar contour, you tin select the plus sign next to their name to add together them to your co-author list. After you've selected the plus sign, you will need to then click on the blue check mark at the top of the window.

That's it! At present you've got a Google Scholar profile that helps y'all track when your piece of work has been cited both in the peer-reviewed literature and is another scholarly landing page that will connect others with your publications. The all-time part? Google Scholar'south pretty good at automatically adding new stuff to your profile, significant you won't have to practice a lot of work to keep it upwardly.

Limitations

Dingy data in the form of wrong publications isn't the but limitation of Google Scholar you should be aware of. The quality of Google Scholar citations has besides been questioned, because they're different from what scholars take traditionally considered to be a citation worth counting: a citation in the peer-reviewed literature.

Google Scholar counts citations from pretty much anywhere they can find them. That means their citation count frequently includes citations from online undergraduate papers, slides, white papers and similar sources. Because of this, Google Scholar citation counts are much college than those from competitors like Scopus and Web of Science.

That tin be a skilful thing. But yous can as well argue it'due south "inflating" citation counts unfairly. It too makes Google Scholar's commendation counts quite susceptible to gaming techniques like using false publications to fraudulently raise the numbers. Nosotros've not heard many evaluators complaining about these bug, only it's adept to be aware of them.

Google Scholar also shares a limitation with two scholarly social media sites nosotros'll exist exploring in later challenges:  ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Each of these sites are somewhat of an information silo. You cannot export your commendation data, meaning that even if you lot were to amass very impressive commendation statistics on the platform, the only manner to become them onto your website, CV, or an almanac report is to copy and paste them – way too much tedium for virtually of us to endure. Their siloed approach to platform building definitely contributes to researchers' profile fatigue.

Its final major limitation? There's no telling if Google Scholar volition exist effectually tomorrow. Remember Google Reader? Google has a history of killing beloved products when the bottom line is in question.  It'due south not exaggerating to say that Google Scholar Profiles could literally go away at any moment. Google Scholar is not solitary in this; we recognize that several of the services in the OU Touch Challenge could suffer the aforementioned fate. That'south why one of the nigh important challenges volition come in a few weeks – uploading your work to SHAREOK.

Homework

Google Scholar tin only automate so much. To fully complete your Google Scholar profile, let's manually add any missing articles. And allow's also teach you how to export your publication information from Google Scholar, because y'all'll desire to reuse it on other platforms.

1. Add missing articles

You lot might take an commodity or two that Google Scholar didn't automatically add to your profile. If that's the instance, you'll need to add it manually.

• Click the "+" button in the grey toolbar above your listed manufactures.
• Select "Add manufactures manually" from the dropdown carte. And then y'all should see this screen.

It'southward here where you lot tin can add new papers to your profile. Include as much descriptive data equally possible – information technology makes information technology easier for Google Scholar to find citations to your work. Click "Salvage (the blue check mark at the summit right of the window)" after you've finished adding your article metadata, and repeat as necessary until all of your publications are on Google Scholar.

2. Clean up your Google Scholar Contour information

Thanks to Google Scholar Profiles' "auto add" functionality, your Profile might include some articles you didn't author. If that's the example, you can remove them in one of two ways:

• Clicking on the title of each offending article to get to the article's page, and then clicking the trash can in the top right of the pop up window.
• From the main Profile page, ticking the boxes adjacent to each incorrect article and selecting the "Delete" from the gray bar above your manufactures

Google Scholar volition automatically update your profile when it finds new publication it believes are yours.

Yous can go on a close middle on what articles are automatically added to your profile past signing upwardly for alerts and manually removing any incorrect additions that announced. Here'south how to sign upwards for alerts:

• Click the blue "Follow" button at the height of your profile
• Select "New articles in my profile"
• Enter the e-mail address where you want these alerts sent
• Click "Done."

3. Learn how to consign your publications listing in BibTeX format

There will likely be a time when you'll want to export your Google Scholar publications to another service, and we'll ask yous to do that in a future challenge. If you already have accounts with other services, here's how to export in BibTeX format. Delight know: one of the reasons we had y'all sign upward for ORCiD kickoff, is that this can oft exist done automatically through ORCiD's syncing capabilities. But for other times you lot may desire to export in BibTeX format:

• Tick the box next to each article whose details you want to export. (If you desire to export all your articles, tick the box to the left of TITLE in the gray bar above the list of your works.) Click the "Consign" button, and so choose BibTeX to export your file. You will get a browser window with your citations in BibTeX format, which y'all can then "Save as…" or copy/paste to a text editor and save.
• Using the same instructions above, yous can too download your citations as a .csv file or for EndNote. These files download direct to your reckoner.

In future challenges, we'll also cover how to apply Google Scholar to stay abreast of new research in your field and new citations to your work.

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