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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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]