Google Scholar Citations – an easy way to get citation metrics into UCSF Profiles?

/ leslieyuan

Recently Google launched Google Scholar Citations: a simple way for you to compute your citation metrics and track them over time, per this blog post.

I went in to check it out on July 25, 2011 and ‘signed up’ – and here’s what I found. NOTE: apparently this is a limited launch with a small number of users, so if you can’t sign up, you can provide your email address to be notified when they open it up to everyone.

1. I went to: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile

2. I logged into my Google account and then followed their 4 step process of claiming my citation profile. Here are the steps:

3. Step 1 was creating the Google scholar Profile – this entailed putting in my name, title, institution email address. (sorry no screen shot).

4. Step 2 is to import “Your articles.” The system automatically shows me what it found and then I went in to “claim” which articles were mine. Once I click the “This is mine” button next to every article that is mine, the button changes to “Remove” (if I want to change my mind). A few notes here:

a. The Google search found my articles in PubMed, and also some patent applications, but I know I had one article that isn’t it PubMed and this one was not found.

b. It was easy for me to claim my articles as I only had 3 items. For people with hundreds of articles to claim, I’m not sure how easy they make it to claim your work.

5. Step 3 is to configure your updates for Google scholar

6. Step 4 – Go to view your profile, which is private by default. Change this to public if you want others to find it (and if you want to create a link to it from your UCSF Profile)

Clicking on a specific article gets you to:

7. If you’ve made your Google Scholar Profile public, you can grab this Google URL and easily create a link to citation metrics in your UCSF Profile. Log in to UCSF Profiles and edit the Websites associated with your profile. See a screenshot of mine below, or view it live.

We’ve got some other ideas on how this work can intersect with UCSF Profiles and our work with research networking tools … in more robust ways than this. But in less than 10 minutes, I was able to do the above.

3 thoughts on “Google Scholar Citations – an easy way to get citation metrics into UCSF Profiles?”

    • Well, this is interesting. Searching myself via Microsoft Academic brings up results too, and in addition to some citation information, there’s a simple visualization of my co-author network that includes co-authors outside of UCSF. I’ve just added a link to my Microsoft Academic page to my UCSF Profile. http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4621800

      Of course, I’ve got very few publications, so while it’s easy for me to scan results of Google and Microsoft in a few minutes, for investigators with many publications, it would be quite a bit of work to “claim” one of these profiles. This is why we’re hoping that UCSF Profiles does a better job, with little work. That said, there likely are interesting synergies to be explored between academic research networking tools and these giants’ services. More to come I’m sure.

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