Managing Author Profiles Online

Overview of ORCID, Google Scholar Citations, Web of Science ResearcherID, and Scopus Author profiles.

Create a Google Scholar Profile

  1. Create or use an existing Gmail or Google account. We recommend using a personal Google account so that you retain control of your Google Scholar profile if you change your institution in the future.
  2. Go to Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/. Make sure that you are signed in your Gmail / Google in the top right corner.
  3. Click on My Profile in the top left header.  You will be prompted to create your Google Scholar Profile account.
  4. Add your institutional email. Click on the verification link in your UTSA email inbox.
  5. Click on the pencil icon next to your name to open the Edit mode. You may add up to three name variants if you published under different names in the past.

add name variants to Google Scholar

 

  1. Add keywords for your research interests and make your profile public.
  2. Add the works that have been found by Google to your profile.
  3. Review the works that appear on your Google Scholar Profile to confirm that they were correctly attributed.  Select the works that were not authored by you by using the checkboxes on the left and remove them.
  4. Add other works manually if they were not found by Google Scholar.

Google Scholar profile editing bar

 

  1. If you have a common name, go to Configure article updates and select "Don't automatically update my profile." Otherwise, works by other authors with the same name may be added to your profile.

  1. To edit your profile in the future, click on the menu icon  in the top left corner and go to My Profile or click on the pencil Edit icon to the right of your name.