How do I correct a citation in Google Scholar?

How do I fix it? Click on the title of the article and then click on the “Edit” button. When you finish your changes, click on the “Save” button. If you have substantially changed the bibliographic record (title, authors, journal, etc.), Google Scholar may not able to match it up with Google Scholar’s index right away.

Are Google Scholar Citations accurate?

They are quite accurate but not completely or 100 accurate as there are numerous journals and conference not indexed by google scholar. However, most organisation and universities recognise Google Scholar as authentic metric to measure your citations and impact along with Scopus.com and JCR.

Why is Google Scholar not updating citations?

If one of your articles was cited by a journal article that is not indexed by Google Scholar, the citation will not appear in your google scholar account. The only solution is to legally add the cited article to a shared repository accessed by google scholar such as researchgate.

How do I report a mistake on Google Scholar?

The obvious place to report it would be the Google Scholar “contact us” form. I suspect there is little chance of the problems being fixed (since scholar has been around for over a decade, and I’m sure others must have reported these problems over the years) but you have little to lose by trying.

Why do Google Scholar citations go down?

Google scholar will drop citations obtained from articles whose hosting websites no longer exist, and sometimes will remove erratic self-citation. Also, some authors do not use consistent name formats, which means a citation that belongs to another author might be attributed to you.

How often are Google Scholar citations updated?

It turns out the update frequency is very regular: I found that et al.’s citations increase (by about ~1500) exactly every other day. So that’s the answer to how often Google Scholar updates its citation counts: every other day.

Can I delete Google Scholar account?

Google Scholar profiles are not transferable. But you can delete the Google Scholar profile from your own account. Then create a new profile while signed in to your advisor’s account. then click on “Delete or recover your Scholar account.”

Why does Google Scholar not show my paper?

Personal websites, press or academic pages that show errors or broken links are not identified by Google search engines. The article could be removed by Google if it is deleted or disappears from its original location.

What’s wrong with Google Scholar?

Disadvantages of using Google Scholar: It can be a research source, but should not be the only source you use. Google Scholar does not provide the criteria for what makes its results “scholarly”. Google Scholar does not allow users to limit results to either peer reviewed or full text materials or by discipline.

What is a good h index?

What is a Good h-Index? Hirsch reckons that after 20 years of research, an h-index of 20 is good, 40 is outstanding, and 60 is truly exceptional. In his paper, Hirsch shows that successful scientists do, indeed, have high h-indices: 84\% of Nobel prize winners in physics, for example, had an h-index of at least 30.

Is Google Scholar better than Web of Science?

Neither one is complete, although Web of Science citation data is considered more accurate and reproducible and is used by official organizations as the standard. Google Scholar citations include books, theses, other reports, but may not include a lot of older citations because of lack of tagging of older files.

Why are my citations not being recognized by Google Scholar?

It is possible that citations to your work are not recognized by Google Scholar because of errors in (or incompleteness of) the reference string. Such ‘stray’ citations can be corrected, see Anne-Wil Harzing’s guide to correcting stray citations in Google Scholar. Note that the same problem occurs in all citation databases to some extent.

Is there any way to report errors in Google Scholar?

Probably there are some other mistakes around. I know that these data are collected automatically, but, is there any way to report the errors to help google scholar to perfect their algorithms? The obvious place to report it would be the Google Scholar “contact us” form.

Is Google Scholar’s contact form useful?

Pont is right that Google Scholar has a contact form, which is mainly useful if bugs in their own system causes mistakes. I’d hesitate to call this a mistake, however. At least not on their part, as they presumably source their data from e.g. publishers and journals. Contacting the publisher directly may be more productive.

Does it matter if my name is misspelled in a citation?

So if they have misspelled your name when they cite your work, it should not matter, if they actually cited your work. Google Scholar or Pubmed or Web of Knowledge etc should be able to discern that.