Google Scholar Account Registration Portal 2021/2022 Updates

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Google Scholar Account Registration Portal 2021/2022 Updates.

Google Scholar Registration: The aim of this article is to guide you on how to create a Google Scholar profile, but I will also throw in some tips on how to improve your search on Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a free academic search engine which can be seen as the academic version of Google. Instead of searching all of the indexed information on the web, Google Scholar searches collections of publishers, universities, or scholarly websites.

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This is generally a smaller subset of the pool that Google searches. It’s all done automatically, but still, most of the results of a search tend to be reliable scholarly sources. However, Google is also less careful in what it includes in search results, so it is worth making your own assessment of the credibility of the resources linked through Google Scholar.

How to Create a Google Scholar Profile

A Google Scholar profile is a very simple way of collating your publications and citations so that others can find your work and often find an accessible copy to read. Once you have set up the profile, you can choose automatic updates so you don’t need to spend a lot of time updating your publications list.

So, if you create a Google Scholar profile, your profile will come high up the page rankings if people are searching for your work. The following are the steps to creating a Google Scholar profile:

  • To begin, you’ll need a Google account. Use your existing account or create one.
  • Go to Google Scholar and click on ‘My citations’
  • Follow the instructions; add your affiliation information and your University email address. (Remember to validate the address; you’ll receive an email asking you to do this).
  • Add keywords relating to your research and add a link to your University home page (if any)
  • Add a photo if you want to personalize your profile.
  • Click on ‘Next step’ to create your basic profile.
  • Add your publications. Google will probably suggest the correct ones and ask you to confirm that they are yours. Be careful if you have a common name as publications by others may be included in the suggestions. There may also be some types of articles that you don’t want to include (Google indexes lots of content such as newsletters, book reviews, etc, not just scholarly articles).
  • To find missing publications, you can search using article titles or DOIs. You can also add missing publications manually if required.
  • Make your profile public. This means that others will be able to find it and discover your body of work.

Tips on How to Improve Searching on Google Scholar

  • Use the “Advanced search” option in the menu to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range. These options won’t work optimally, but it can help to limit the number of results.
  • Use double quotation marks to search for multiple words next to each other in a specified order (like in compound terms or an exact phrase), e.g., climate change or the impact of climate changes on food security. Otherwise, Google Scholar will automatically combine multiple words with the operator “AND”.
  • Include alternative terms by using the “OR” operator. In some cases, Google Scholar doesn’t include obvious synonyms in your search. With the “OR” operator you can combine these terms and find more. Instead of “OR” you can also use |, e.g., “heart|myocardial infarction|attack” finds heart infarction, myocardial infarction, heart attack, and myocardial attack.
  • Exclude specific terms by using the – operator. You can exclude as many terms as you want, e.g., mercury –ford –Freddy –outboards –planet.
  • Allintitle: Limit your search to terms appearing in the title only, e.g., allintitle: “Agaricus campestris”.
  • Filetype: Limit your search to specific file types by using filetype: or ext: E.g., “Agaricus campestris” filetype:pdf
  • Site: Limit your search to certain websites or domains. This can be useful for websites without good search options, e.g., “plant diseases” site:journals.plos.org. By searching within certain domain extensions, you can limit your search by country or type of institution, e.g., “plant diseases” site:.edu (academic institutions in the USA).
  • Combine all of the above to do more precise searches, e.g., allintitle: “carbon dioxide” OR CO2 -phosphorus ext:pdf site:.edu
  • Personalize your search through Settings and use other helpful features of Google Scholar. For example, make your own library of references called My Library, create literature alerts, or let Google Scholar show import citation links to EndNote or another reference manager. To use these options, you’ll need to sign in with your Google account.

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