Google Scholar Optimization and Public Profiles: Public Author Profiles

Boost your academic profile: Create a Google Scholar Profile!

Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their 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, e.g., richard feynman.

Manage your publications in Google Scholar

Best of all, it's quick to set up and simple to maintain - even if you have written hundreds of articles, and even if your name is shared by several different scholars. You can add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time; and your citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. You can choose to have your list of articles updated automatically or review the updates yourself, or to manually update your articles at any time.

To start:

Set up your Google Scholar profile

Get publication metrics for your work, such as h-index and citation count

Author metrics include total citation counts, and an author's h-index and i10 index. Your citation metrics will be automatically updated by Google Scholar.

• h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h new citations in the last 5 years.
• i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations. The second column has the "recent" version of this metric which is the number of publications that have received at least 10 new citations in the last 5 years.

Citation counts and indices should not be compared between disciplines. For best results use multiple tools.

Scholars should regularly check their own profile for duplicates, omissions and errors.

To have your articles list automatically updated, select Profile Updates from Action menu, choose automatic updates setting, and click Update Settings.

The GME Department tracks scholarly metrics to highlight our residency program’s significant impact at CMH and in the medical community. To ensure accurate reporting, residents and faculty should create a Google Scholar profile to consolidate their publications and metrics, as their participation is essential for fully capturing and demonstrating our scholarly contributions.

Instructions on how to set up your Google Scholar Profile are in the PPT slide deck below: