Researcher Profiles and Identifiers: Improving Research Visibility and Impact

Google Scholar profiles are widely used by researchers as they track and provide citations and metrics. When creating a Google Scholar Profile, make sure to affiliate with Reichman University. Google Scholar profile is useful in preserving and enhancing the global visibility of the research output of postgraduate students and university.

Create a Google Scholar Profile account

Step 1: Create an account

•  Log on to scholar.google.com and click on my profile in the top menu to set up the account
• Add personal details like name, affiliation, email, subject/keywords relevant to your field of research, and add link to the university website.
• Select automatic update for latest articles to be added onto your profile
• Make your profile public

Step 2: Add publications

• A list of existing publications will appear, use the check box to select and add all your publications
• Articles get listed immediately after completing step 1
• To add more publications onto your profile, click the + sign and select "add articles"
• Search and add publications using different options like, names, publication titles, or keywords
• In the search result list use the check box on the left and in the top menu select and add publications into your profile

Step 3: Citation and metrics

Now that you have created an account you should be able to see:

• Number of citations from your publications
• h-index
• Co-authors (if not listed you can edit and add co-authors)

Step 4: Clean up your Google Scholar Profile account

• Edit publication details like journal titles, article titles, book and chapter titles, authors, date, volume, issues, pagination
• Delete or merge duplicates so that you don't lose citations