Google Scholar

About Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a powerful tool for searching academic literature. It provides access to millions of scholarly articles, books, theses, and other publications. Google Scholar uses a proprietary algorithm to rank and retrieve results, and it provides citations and references to help users navigate and evaluate the quality of the information they find. Google Scholar searches for a wide range of academic materials including journal articles, research reports, dissertations, court documents, and technical reports. When you search in Google Scholar, you receive a list of results.

Benefits of Google Scholar

Useful to carry out an initial search or scoping exercise for immediately accessible resources
Able to identify databases and journal titles relevant to subject areas
Able to link to information on authors’ citations to check on their research history and academic credibility
Able to identify similar resources by using the Related Article searching feature
Exporting references in different formats
Research Impact Evaluation (Google Scholar Profile)
Fulltext Link to articles
Quartile information of the Journal
Create Citation Alerts for the Searches/Articles

Librarians

Shri Ram

Librarian
librarian@thapar.edu

Using Google Scholar for Literature Search

There are two ways to search Google Scholar

Simple Search using the Google Scholar search box. Enter any keyword, author name, institution, etc and it will search widely to give you results
To generate more precise results it is useful to use the advanced search option to tailor your searches, and to reduce the number of unnecessary results returned. To access this option, click on the ☰ menu in the top left corner and select Advanced Search. The advanced search screen will appear.

Google Scholar Author Profile

Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. An Author can check who is citing his/her articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. The Author can also make his/her profile public so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for his/her name.

Best of all, it's quick to set up and simple to maintain - even if you have written hundreds of articles and several scholars share your name. Authors can add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time, and your citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to an author's work on the web.

Setting Up Google Scholar Author Profile

Start here. It's quick and free.

First, sign in to your Google account, or create one if you don't yet have one. We recommend that you use a personal account, not an account at your institution, so that you can keep your profile for as long as you wish.
Once you've signed in to your Google account, open the Scholar profile sign up form, confirm the spelling of your name, enter your affiliation, interests, etc. We recommend that you also enter your university email address; this would make your profile eligible for inclusion in Google Scholar search results.
On the next page, you'll see groups of articles written by people with names similar to yours. Add all articles that you have written; keep in mind your articles may be in several different groups, and some groups may occasionally include articles by several different authors. If you publish under several different names, you may need to do several searches to add all your articles.
Once you're done with adding articles, it will ask you what to do when the article data changes in Google Scholar. You can either have the updates applied to your profile automatically, or you can choose to review them beforehand. In either case, you can always go to your profile and make changes by hand.
Finally, you will see your profile. This is a good time to add a few finishing touches - upload your professional looking photo, visit your university email inbox and click on the verification link, double check the list of articles, and, once you're completely satisfied, make your profile public. Voila - it's now eligible to appear in Google Scholar when someone searches for your name!

Assistance Manual

Download This Presentation for Step-By-Step Guide to Create Your Google Scholar Profile

Useful Databases

Google Scholar Profile of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology