Setting up your Google Scholar Account
- Create (or open existing) Google account. This is the account that you will use to sign in to your Google Scholar Profile, and any communication with Google about your profile will go through the Gmail associated with this Google account, so it can be helpful to use an existing Google account so you don't have something separate to keep track of.
- While logged in to your Google account, go to https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html.
- Click the button labeled "Set up your Google Scholar Profile" and fill in your name, affiliation (University of Florida Levin College of Law), and your UF email for verification.
- Delete any listed articles that aren't your work. (Select the articles you would like to remove and then click the "Delete" button.)
- Click the box to "Make my profile public." Then click the Save button.
- That's it! Google Scholar gets the content for your profile from Google's periodic crawling of the internet. You can, however, manually add content if Google has missed any of your articles, and you can also delete articles that have been incorrectly added by Google.
- Getting notifications when others cite your work: You can get an email notifying you when newly published articles cite to any of the works in your profile by clicking the blue "Follow" button next to your name in your profile, checking the "New citations to my articles" box, and then clicking "Done." Or if you only want citation notifications for a specific article, click the "Cited by" number for that article, then click the envelope icon in the left sidebar.
Maintaining your Google Scholar Account
Your profile is tied to the Google account you used to create it, so only you have access to it. Your profile is automatically updated when Google detects new content of yours as it crawls the internet (e.g., (e.g., SSRN, Hein, JStor, Proquest, schools' institutional repositories, blogs, Google Books, etc.). Going forward, the only thing you need to do is check your profile occasionally (say, once a semester or once a year) to confirm that (1) there are no misattributed articles, and (2) there are no missing articles. It should take all of 5 minutes, and since you are best placed to spot errors, it is expected that each faculty member will do this on their own.
To delete an article, just click the checkbox next to the article(s) you want to delete and then click "Delete."
To add an article that Google has missed, select the "Add articles" option from the "+" menu. Search for your article(s) using titles, keywords, or your name. If you don't find your articles by searching, you can add it manually yourself: click "add article manually," then fill in the title, authors, etc., and click "Save." It may take a few days for the citation information to populate for manually added articles.
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