Google Scholar Citation Profiles for UCT community.

1. Google Scholar Citations Profile
Bibliometrics Working Group
October 2017

2. Google Scholar Citations – product overview
• A way for authors to keep track of citations to their
articles;
• Google Scholar Citations finds new citations to
authors’ work on the web;
• Authors can choose to have articles updated
automatically or review & manually update articles.

3. Google Scholar – Choose “Profiles”

4. Google Scholar Citation – User Profile Example

5. Google Scholar Citation - Andrew Hutchison

6. Andrew Hutchison (Law)
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7. How to create an account

8. DATABASES BY PLATFORM
Access Google Scholar from
the library web page @
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Access Google Scholar via UCT Libraries

9. Databases by Platform – Google Scholar

10. Create an account or sign in

11. NOTE:
Authors are
encouraged to sign
in with a Google
Account (Gmail
address) to keep
the same profile
forever and
preferably link
affiliated work
emails.
Sign in or create a new account

12. Google Scholar – Access “My profile”

13. EMAIL FOR VERIFICATION
UCT EMAIL address -
an institutional affiliated email is
required here for the verification
process.
NEXT
Click “Next” to proceed.
Step 1: Create a Profile

14. Important notice for signing in
If you try to sign in by using an institutional email
instead of a Gmail address, this message will
appear.
Alert! Institutional vs. Gmail address

15. ADD GROUP ARTICLES
Select articles & click “Next”
Step 2: “Select groups of articles that you
wrote.”

16. Step 2: “Select articles that you wrote.”
ADD OWN ARTICLES
Select articles & click
“Next”

17. Step 3: Article updates
REVIEW UPDATES
Choose “Email updates
for review” to control
what gets added to your
Google Scholar Citations
account.
MAKE PROFILE PUBLIC
Choose “Make my profile
public” to allow
institutions and peers to
find and follow your work.

18. My Profile - Verify institutional email
VERIFY EMAIL
Verify email to
authenticate your
institutional account.

19. Click + (Plus) to ADD
Click on ADD to add
publications via Google
Scholar Search or Enter
articles manually.
Articles not in profile? – Add articles

20. MANUALLY ADD
Add journal articles,
books, etc.
Add articles manually

21. Google Scholar Citations Help
Tracking Your Academic Footprints

22. Thank you