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Google Scholar Citations

Google has added a new free feature to its Google Scholar database that may be of interest.  Google Scholar Citations allows you to build a profile of your scholarly work.  That profile can be either public or private.  (My profile is here; Google is using Richard Feynman’s profile as an example.)

Once your profile is completed, you can see who has cited you – at least according to the Google Scholar database.  It also presents a graphic display of citations:

You can sign up to be alerted when new citations to your work are added to Google Scholar.  You can select other authors with public profiles and ask to be alerted when new articles are added to their profiles.  And Google promises to use its matching magic to identify new articles by others that may be of interest to you.

An overview of Google Scholar Citations is here, and instructions on how to create a profile are found here.  All it takes is a Google account.

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