Research Impact Challenge

Google Scholar profiles create a simple way for researchers to display their publications. Google Scholar tracks who is citing articles, and with a Google Scholar profile, researchers can see metrics like their H-Index, i10-index, and view citations over time.

With a public Google Scholar profile, your profile will show up if people search for your name.

Challenge tasks: 

1. Set up your Google Scholar profile (Jump down to instructions)
2. Add publications to your profile (Jump down to instructions)
3. Bonus: Set up the Get It from MCW Libraries buttons in Google Scholar to get easy access to subscription articles. (Learn how ))

Google Scholar provides instructions on how to set up a profile, but you can get started here. Note that you need a Google account in order to create a profile.

Instructions from Google Scholar:

1. First, sign in to your Google account, or create one if you don't yet have one. We recommend that you use a personal account, not an account at your institution, so that you can keep your profile for as long as you wish.
2. Once you've signed in to your Google account, open the Scholar profile sign up form, confirm the spelling of your name, enter your affiliation, interests, etc. We recommend that you also enter your university email address; this would make your profile eligible for inclusion in Google Scholar search results.
3. On the next page, you'll see groups of articles written by people with names similar to yours. Add all articles that you have written; keep in mind your articles may be in several different groups, and some groups may occasionally include articles by several different authors. If you publish under several different names, you may need to do several searches to add all your articles.
4. Once you're done with adding articles, it will ask you what to do when the article data changes in Google Scholar. You can either have the updates applied to your profile automatically, or you can choose to review them beforehand. In either case, you can always go to your profile and make changes by hand.
5. Finally, you will see your profile. This is a good time to add a few finishing touches - upload your professional looking photo, visit your university email inbox and click on the verification link, double check the list of articles, and, once you're completely satisfied, make your profile public. Voila - it's now eligible to appear in Google Scholar when someone searches for your name!

If not all your articles were captured by Google Scholar when you set up your profile, you can add ones in manually by clicking the + box under your profile header, and selecting "Add article manually."