Faculty Resources

Create Your Profile

Go to https://scholar.google.com 
Click My Profile at the top of the page, on the left side, to create your profile
From this screen you can:

• Set up your initial profile
• Edit your profile information, including where you work, name, photo, and research interests
• Manage your publications

Edit Your Profile 

• Starting from Google Scholar, you can access and edit your profile by clicking My Profile in the top left corner of the screen. You can also find your profile using the menu icon (the 3 lines in the top left corner).
• Click the pencil icon next to your photo to enter edit mode.
• Add a photo by clicking on the placeholder profile picture and then uploading a photo from your computer.
• Fill out your university affiliation and add your UT Tyler email address (this will verify your scholar profile).
• Check the box to Make my Profile Public to allow others to find you and your publications.
  Note: an excellent example of a Google Scholar profile is Dr. David J. McComas

Manage your publications

• Add a Publication

Click the + button below your photo to add articles to your profile. You can locate articles three different ways to add to your profile: 

1.  Add Article Groups - This option shows you groups of articles that may all be yours... or not. This method doesn't always work well but it does let you add multiple articles to your profile at once.
2. Add Articles - Select individual articles to add to your profile (try changing the search to an article's title if the suggestions don't have what you are looking for).
3. Add Article Manually - If your work has not been indexed by Google Scholar then you can add it yourself. You can add many different types of publications in this form. Unfortunately, the form currently does not let you add a link to an online copy.

• Merge Duplicates
  • Use the checkboxes to select your duplicate publications, one set at a time.
  • The ADD button changes to a MERGE button on the toolbar. Click it.
  • Choose the record with the best information. Click MERGE.
  • Repeat as needed.
• Delete Publications
  • Use the checkboxes to select the publication(s) you want to delete.
  • A DELETE button will appear to the left of the MERGE button on the toolbar
  • As soon as you click DELETE the publication(s) are removed.
  • There is a one-time undo message after you delete publication(s).
  • Repeat as needed.

Exporting Data 
Google Scholar lets you download your publication data so you can easily import it into other programs. Please note that it only exports your publication information, not citation counts.

• Select the articles you want to export.
• You can "Select All" by checking the box next to "Title" on the gray bar under your photo.
• Click Export and choose a file type.
• BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan and CSV are the available file types.

Publons, part of Web of Science, allows you to easily import, verify, and store a record of every peer review you perform and every manuscript you handle as an editor, for any journal in the world, in full compliance with all editorial policies. 

• Select Databases by Title on the Library webpage
• Select W then select Web of Science
• The link for Publons is located on the menu across the top of the page

See FAQs for Publons Reviewers here...

See FAQs for Publons Editors here...

See FAQs for Publons Academy here...

Check out Publons videos here...

Researcher Academy offers practical skills and professional development advice for researchers at every level of their career. Learn how to make your research stand out & garner those all-important citations.

 e-Learning Modules:

• Research Preparation (10 modules)
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Scopus is a large abstract and citation database covering more than 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from over 4,000 international publishers. It contains scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature, and has recently also included literature in the arts and humanities fields.

For best results using Scopus, create an account. Make sure you're using the link above, or from our Databases by Title page, to access it.

Scopus offers tools to track, analyze and visualize research. One of them is the "Compare Sources" tool, which provides quick and easy view of journal performance. Compare up to 10 journals at one time. Full citation data are available from 1996 and are updated every two months.

To access "Compare Sources" tool:

Access Scopus - from library webpage select Databases by Title, select S, select Scopus

Select "Compare sources" 

Search for a journal by title, ISSN, or publisher. 

From the result list, select your desired journal(s) to add it to chart on the right for comparison. Up to 10 journals can be added.

Journals can be evaluated using various parameters, including three journal ranking metrics "CiteScore", "SJR" and "SNIP".