This document provides instructions for setting up a Google Scholar profile. It notes that a Google Scholar profile allows for unique identification and visibility to a diverse audience. It also accommodates different publication types like articles, book chapters, and theses. However, it is possible for other researchers' publications to be incorrectly listed under your profile. The document then provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a Google Scholar profile which involves logging into a personal Google account, clicking "My Profile" and adding publications. It emphasizes using a personal Gmail account to maintain the profile permanently.

1. Google Scholar:
How to set up your profile
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UCT Bibliometrics Working Group
15 February 2018

2. Content to cover
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• Brief Advantages and Drawbacks of
Google Scholar profile
• Step by step guide on setting up your
profile

3. Google Scholar Profile:
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Advantage
• Unique identification

4. Google Scholar Profile:
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Advantage
• Visibility: diverse audience
• Accommodates variety of document types
including
• articles, book chapters, case laws,
conference proceedings, theses, poster
presentations and other
• Accrue citation for all document types

5. Google Scholar Profile:
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Drawbacks
• have quality issue
• other researchers publication can be
listed as your own
• doesn’t have socializing features

6. Setting up Google Scholar Profile:
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To set up profile one needs to
• Log-in to personal google account
• e.g. Gmail
OR
• Creating one, if you don’t have
 It is important to sign in with your personal
google account to keep your profile for life.

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Access Google Scholar www.lib.uct.ac.za

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Access Google Scholar

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Google Scholar

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Sign In / Create
an account
Sign in with your
Gmail account
OR
Create personal
Gmail account

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To set up a profile
click on ‘My Profile’

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• Use current
affiliation
• Use current
institution’s
email address
for verification.
Step 1: Profile

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Important
• Use your
personal
Gmail
account, to
keep your
profile for
life.

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Step 2: Articles – select your publications

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Step 3: Settings - Updating
Receiving updates by email gives you more control

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Edit your profile

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Edit your profile cont. …

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Add more publications

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Add publications: Add Articles

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Add publications: Add Articles by searching

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Add publications: add manually

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Follow your profile

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Specify what to follow

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Verify your email

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Verify your email

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27. Need more help?
Contact your subject librarian at UCT
Libraries:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/subject-
librarians
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