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Creating Author Profiles

This guide covers how to create and update online author profiles to represent your scholarly activity.

Why Google Scholar?

Having a Google Scholar profile helps researchers searching in Google Scholar discover all of your works in one place. Because Google Scholar is so commonly used this also helps create a record of your research that is likely to be found by anyone searching for you or your work, including potential co-authors, grant and award committee members, and interested researchers.

A Google Scholar profile:

  • Creates an easily discoverable profile of your research
  • Can help you track citations of your work

Create a Google Scholar Profile

When you set up your Google Scholar account you will also be adding your published work and setting preferences for how Google Scholar adds your future work.

Adding Your Publications

  1. Log into your Google account on the Google Scholar homepage. (If you do not have one, you must create it in order to have a Google Scholar profile.)
  2. Click on the My Profile icon in the upper left.

  3. Fill out the intake info.

    • Full name – use the name you publish under. This can be changed later.

    • Affiliation –  include your job title, department, and university

    • Email for verification – use your UCCS email.

    • Areas of interest – list keywords that someone might use to find your research

    • Homepage (optional) – link either your webpage from UCCS, or a personal professional website if you have one. If you don’t have either of these, don’t worry, that’s fine.

  4. Add the articles you have written by searching all names you have published under, including versions with and without initials.

  5. Search for and add any publications that Google Scholar couldn't locate by title.

This is a profile you manage. That means you can edit incorrect information about your publications, chance your name and university affiliation as needed, and delete your profile if you ever choose to do so. However, this will not fix mistakes on other websites. If your name or any other information appears incorrectly on a publisher's website, you must contact them to fix the error. 

Managing Your Preferences

The last step of creating a Google Scholar profile involves your personal settings. You can choose whether:

  • Google Scholar automatically adds new publications to your profile based on name matching or whether you want to be emailed each time it detects a new publication.
  • Your profile is publicly visible. 
  • You receive emails whenever your work has been cited.