Researcher profiles and identifiers

Google Scholar Profiles allow authors to list their scholarly works and: 

• Keep track of citations to their scholarly works,
• Check who has cited their publications,
• Graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.

Citation metrics are updated automatically, and researchers can choose to have the list of publications updated automatically or update them themselves.

To allow others to easily find your body of research, make your profile public, so that it appears in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.

You can use Google Scholar Profiles to:

• Make your work more discoverable in Google Scholar.
• Track citation metrics for scholarly works that are not widely indexed in bibliometric databases, such as books, reports, working papers and theses.
• Allow people to 'follow' your work using the Google Scholar follow button.
• Allow people to find your Open Access articles.

It is important to understand that:

• To ensure accurate representation of your research, you need to maintain your Google Scholar Profile.
• If you have a common name, or the same name as other researchers, you need to carefully check your profile for incorrectly assigned research.
• Google Scholar citation data can be incorrect, and the proprietary algorithm means that it is not clear where the data is being drawn from.
• Google Scholar Profiles do not integrate with ORCID or other platforms.