Academic Profiles

Try searching for your work through Google Scholar before trying to create an academic profile on the platform. If you are not a published author, have not had your publications indexed somewhere on the World Wide Web or if Google Scholar has not indexed any of your work, Google Scholar will not permit you to finalize a profile.

Because Google Scholar indexes solely through crawling the World Wide Web, a page must exist somewhere on the Internet that contains the title of your article along with an author name, publishing details and an abstract. Widespread journal publisher adoption of the web began in the mid-to-late 1990s, following the launch of the World Wide Web in 1991. By 1997–2000, major academic publishers like Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley had begun systematically publishing title, author, publication, and abstract information online, often through subscription portals. This shift was driven by increased internet access at universities, the rise of digital library initiatives, and demand for searchable databases. By the early 2000s, most scholarly journals had a consistent web presence, enabling indexing by search engines and the growth of citation tracking tools. For articles that were published in the 1980s and prior, Google Scholar may not be able to locate information about your publications to index in its database.

If you are an author whose work has been published in the 1990s onwards and the article exists in a database that is at least somewhat available online and it is still not being indexed by Google Scholar, please consult the Optimize H-Index page for assistance.

Articles published in non-peer review journals as well as predatory journals are indexed in Google Scholar, so H-Index scores in Google Scholar often appear higher than in premium databases like Scopus and Web of Science.