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Scholarly Communications Resources

This guide contains resources and information about Scholarly Communications services provided to faculty and students at Texas A&M University School of Law.

Set Up Google Scholar

  1. Go to https://scholar.google.com and log in with a Google account. You can use a personal or institutional account.
  2. Once logged in, select "My Profile" at the top.

  1. If this is a new account, you will be prompted to enter details like your name, email, and academic interests. To get "verified by" the university, enter your TAMU email address.
  2. After saving the information, you will be able to select articles and article groups that belong to you. You can click on the "Follow" button to receive updates on additions and citations to works in your profile.

  1. Using the "+" dropdown, you can add articles to your profile in sets grouped together by author name. Using article groups option makes adding a lot of articles to your profile quick and easy. For any publications that do not show up on Google Scholar's index, you can manually add them by clicking "Add article manually".
  2. To have more control over changes to your profile, you can "Configure article updates" and set it to "Don't automatically update my profile. Send me email tor review and confirm updates." Google recommends auto-updates, but it can lead to unwanted errors since it is managed by AI. 
  3. When set up and connected using your TAMU Law email, you will be added to the TAMU Law Faculty Google Scholar page.

Why Use Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that indexes the full text and metadata of scholarship across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.

Google Scholar's data is not perfectly accurate and is known to exclude some citations of works from some sources and include false positives that count as citations. The system's information is constantly being updated and changed, which explains why citation counts can fluctuate over time (and even go down!). But, even though the data is not perfect, Google Scholar still offers a view into a scholar's overall publication record over time and provides a rough count of total citations and growth over time viewed by calendar years.

Google Scholar "Cited By" and "Citations Per Year" as of February 2023.