Scholarly Profiles: Google Scholar

Google Scholar Profiles allow authors to showcase their academic publications and check who is citing their articles. With public profiles, authors can raise the visibility and findability of their work in Google Scholar search results.

• A Google Scholar profile allows a wide audience to find your work.
• It can fill the need of a personal website if you don’t have one. 
• Tracks your work throughout your career, even if you change institutions or publish under multiple names. 
• Is easy to set up and automate. You can choose to have articles automatically added and citation metrics are always updated automatically whenever the platform is updated.
• By connecting Google Scholar to UW Libraries, you can see direct links to your articles in UW Libraries Search. 

• Google Scholar citation counts are widely used, but not always correct.

• Google Scholar does not index everything and is not designed for news articles, book reviews, editorials, or other scholarly work outside of academic journals. 

• Does not list or link to other author IDs.

If you don't have one, you need to create a Google account. Go to Google.com and click on the blue Sign In button in the upper right.

Once you have a Google account,

1. Go to scholar.google.com while you're logged in to Google.

2. Click on the My Profile link in the upper left of the screen.

3. Add the personal information requested. To maintain your profile throughout your career, use a personal email address.

4. Choose your publications from the list Google presents to you.

5. You can also add publications manually

6. Click on the blue arrow to add your publications. 

7. On the next page, select your preferred settings.

   1. Choose whether you want new articles added automatically, or review and approve new publications with email notifications.

   2. Select "make my profile public" if you want others to find and view your profile.

8. Click done to view your finished profile.