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Research Impact Challenge

Day 2: Set up your Google Scholar Profile and retrieve impact metrics

Welcome to day 2 of the Research Impact Challenge. Today we will focus on the Google Scholar (GS) profile and the citation metrics available.Google Scholar Profile sketch

Google Scholar allows setting up a researcher's profile; it's easy and quick to set up and simple to maintain. Your profile page will contain bibliographic records of your academic publications as well as citation metrics and graph of citations over time, calculated by Google Scholar.

Once you set up your profile (you need to have at least one item already published), Google Scholar will automatically populate all the publications that the system identified as yours based on your name; further clean-up/adjustment would be needed to delete the documents that are not yours or to upload missing articles to your profile. Maintaining a GS profile is a great advantage because it tracks all available citations to your publications. Additionally, Google Scholar provides two measures to rank author impact: the h-index and the i10 number. Citation metrics in Google Scholar are only available for authors with a GS profile. You can also set up alerts through your profile to receive notifications every time your papers are cited.

 

Challenge:
  • Log on to Google Scholar and click the “My Profile” link to get your account setup started; complete your personal information, add/claim your publication and make your profile public.
  • If you already have a Google Scholar Profile, review your publications and ensure they are up to date. Finally, gather your h-index, i10 number, and total citations of your research outlets.

 

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