Guides: Curating your Online Presence: Google Scholar "My Profile"

Google Scholar "My Profile"

Google Scholar Profile: A service that generates a list of your publications indexed in Google Scholar. It includes impact metrics calculations such as h-index, citation counts, and the i10-index.

Google Scholar "My Profile": Select it or Reject it?

Why Select Google Scholar "My Profile"?

Why Reject Google Scholar "My Profile"?

It will update itself
Your profile will be easily findable online.
It provides generous citation count data (see also: Why Reject "My Profile"-->)
Your citations may connect to subscription resources at your library.
You want a profile that doesn't allow commenting or automatic connecting with others.
You can choose to have your list of articles updated automatically or review the updates yourself, or to manually update your articles at any time.

If you have a common name it may bring in publications by others so you would need to spend time reviewing it regularly for publications that are not yours.
Data privacy issues are unclear.
Commercial entity.
Citation metrics can be overly generous, including some citations that you might not want to report due to quality concerns or duplication.