Category: Google scholar

To conclude, google scholar is a useful tool and can (should) be used. This holds true to keep track of research productivity for scholars, specially because of increased competition. However, it’s extremely important to be ethical. At times, google scholar add things to profile automatically. For three big reasons: Lack comprehensive information. Google Scholar is […]

Google Scholar is a Web Search engine run by Google that indexes scholarly literature like peer-reviewed journals, academic books, conference papers, and more. As such, Google Scholar is a good way to find “grey literature,” or material like conference papers that have not been published in traditional ways. What is Google Scholar search engine? Google […]

None of the citation databases are particularly good . Google Scholar tends to err on the side of inclusiveness (thereby over-representing impact), while the more curated databases (e. g, ISI Wo. K) tend to err on the side of exclusiveness (thereby under-representing impact). Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for scholars to keep track […]

Despite the name, Google Scholar does have non-scholarly content. You will need to look at each article to determine whether it is scholarly. Here are some questions to ask: Is the author a subject expert? Is the article written for other experts? Was the article peer reviewed? Although it is free to search in Google […]

Stand on the shoulders of giants. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar provides a simple way to […]

You might have articles that Google Scholar didn’t automatically add to your profile. If that’s the case, you’ll need to add it manually. Click the “Add” button in the grey toolbar within your profile. On the next page, click the “Add article manually” link in the left-hand toolbar. How to share google scholar profile link? […]

Go to Google Scholar Click on the menu on the top left and click on Settings > Library Links > type in your institute and right-click on it and then choose inspect > the console of your browser will open up. This will show a code starting with “gs_lib_”. Select and copy this code. How […]

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