A Google Scholar profile is a free way to showcase your academic publications. You can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
To create a Google Scholar profile, you will need to sign in to your Google account. After that go to Google Scholar and follow the steps:
To create a Google Scholar profile, you will need to sign in to your Google account. After that go to Google Scholar and follow the steps:
Google Scholar is a simple way to search for scholarly literature broadly. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
- Google Scholar only contains citation references to books, journal articles, and other resources, not general websites like the Google Search engine.
- It is more complete in the S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine) literature. It is also fairly comprehensive in the Social Sciences (such as Education and Counseling).
- In addition to showing resources like journal articles in our subscription databases, it also shows free “open access” and gray literature items (like conference proceedings, organization white papers, etc.) found on the web.
- The default sort for results is by relevance ranking. Articles that are cited the most by others show up higher in the rankings.
- It shows who has cited each work so that you can trace patterns of research. If the older, original article is helpful, it is likely that at least some of the more recent articles that cite the older article will also be helpful in your research.
- If you are doing a comprehensive literature review, you should always check other sources such as Scopus or Lens.org or other discipline-specific databases rather than relying solely on Google Scholar.
- Abstracts are freely available for most of the articles. However, reading the entire article may require a subscription database.
- If you are unable to access any article, we can try to borrow it from another library
