 Hi everyone, welcome to basic science series. I'm your host, Lokinder Kumar and today I'm going to talk about Google Scholar What are the different benefits of Google Scholar and how you can use Google Scholar and improve your research profile? I will discuss everything in detail and I have a short tutorial on that one that will help you to understand Google Scholar I have one request to make if you are new to the channel Please subscribe to the channel and if you like the video, please press the like button Google Scholar is amazing website that keeps a good track of your all of your articles and It provides you all the details about the citation of your articles Citations in science are really important citations determine how much your research has been Read by other authors how much it has been discussed by other people and how much it has been Also mentioned in different articles. So citations are really important for any researchers So if you're doing research and you want to know how much citations you are getting every year or how much Citations you are getting for your one of your article. So Google Scholar is the platform that provides you that particular opportunity Citations are also important in terms of the research productivity of a particular researcher if Particular research have a lot of citation. That means the research is really important And it is being also performed in other labs and various researchers are working together on that particular topic So citations are a really good indicator of your particular research productivity Or they are also a very good indicator of whether what you are doing is important or not Google Scholar provides you this particular information in a very organized way It will give you a year wise citation record of your article It will also give you article wise citation record of your article So that is very convenient to understand how much your research is being discussed or it's been cited by other articles Second important thing that I'm going to discuss is Google Scholar gives you an opportunity to collaborate with other researchers How when you make a Google Scholar profile? You have to mention your particular research area and when you click on that research area after making the profile You can visit various researchers and Google Scholar will tell you that these are the researchers that are working in your area and You can get all the information about their article and also what they are doing Which is great. So this is a really important for any young researcher who is working in particular area and want to know What peers are doing? What kind of research they are doing? So that is why it also provides you a great opportunity to collaborate with the researcher in the same area Another important point with the Google Scholar is it provides you specific and targeted search So if you type something in Google Scholar window, it will give you the articles that were published in that particular topic Also the case laws or review articles. It depends how you set your Search setting in the Google Scholar window, but it is more specific than general Google window You search in Google Scholar and when you click on any result Google Scholar provides you an opportunity to directly go to the website General website and then you can download the particular article if you have access to that particular article And you can easily download that article. It also provides you an opportunity to make Libraries so you can make your own libraries of particular research topic inside the Google Scholar Another thing that I like about Google Scholar is you can import citations in end-note format From Google Scholar on one click when you visit a particular article You will find there is a link that you can use to download that citation and on one click You can download the citation and import that citation in your Google document One of the most important point of Google Scholar is if you have a Google Scholar profile and if you are applying for a postdoctoral position Or if you are applying for a research assistant position or faculty position You are You have to give this particular information to your employer and Google Scholar is considered as Standard information about your all the research that you have done So they will visit your Google Scholar profile and they will try to find out what kind of research you're doing And Google Scholar provides you that information at one place in my opinion Google Scholar is a great website. You can get a lot of a lot of information from Google Scholar You can get citations and Everything about the research article, but I think there is a limitation Google Scholar is weak in providing the analytics about your research article. For example If I want to know how many people view my research article, you will not find that particular data in Google Scholar But you can find all that information for example for your YouTube video, right? So Why not on the Google Scholar? It's still a question Another point is Google Scholar doesn't provide you a kind of a comment section where people can actually Ask question about the particular research article. So I think that is one of the limitation of Google Scholar It is less interactive but overall if you are trying to do research and You you want to have all those citations and article at one place Google Scholar is great website All right, so that was The major points about Google Scholar and now we will we will do a brief tutorial and I will introduce you about the Various features that Google Scholar provides and what are the importance of all those features? For example, I will tell you How a Google Scholar profile look like I will give an example of my own profile and I'll show you how many articles I have in my Google Scholar profile Also, I will I will explain the citations as well as how to download the articles. So Please stay tuned till the end of the video and you will get all the information that you want One quick request if you are new to the channel Please do not forget to subscribe the channel and you will get all the updates from basic science series And also if you like the video, please press the like button. So I'm going to show you how to use Google Scholar and what are the different features of Google Scholar? All right, let's start So I'm typing Google Scholar in the Google window And you can see there is a Google Scholar tab here Just click on that tab and you will see Mainframe of the Google Scholar window And what are these different components? Let me explain you These three lines if you click here will show you different components of Google Scholar. Okay, we will go One by one through these components And then there is a shortcut tab for the my profile specifically if you want to check of profile of a particular professor or a particular researcher you can Click here or you want to visit your own profile as I'm logged in I can click here And my library my library shows me various research articles that I stored or I visited And this is the search window. It's like Google search window. You can type the name of the Research article you can type the name of the researcher and you can find Articles as well as case laws All right Let's start from the my profile window when I'll click on the my profile window A Google Scholar will direct me to my profile as you can see this is Uh, a Google Scholar a typical Google Scholar profile and where you can post a picture And you can post your name Where you work, what is your designation? What is your research area? This is important Uh, for example, in my case molecular microbiology is the research area. So I posted that particular name here And what happens when you click on this one? You will find different researchers that have the same area. So it's really convenient for you to find Um Researchers that are working in your area, right? Okay, so Now you can click here and uh, you can follow me Or any other researchers and you will get updates when I'll post any research article Okay, and now you can see here on the right side You can see citations and I have 204 citation right now and uh hindex 6 I 10 index 5. So all these are the factors that Influence my research productivity Hindex is the major of your citations. So for example, if I publish one article and it gets cited by other article So I get one citation Right. So slowly slowly my paper is going to get cited and I'm going to get more citations And my uh hindex code will go higher in this case You can see my first paper that I published in 2013 During my PhD work Has been cited 93 times. So that means that 93 different papers has Uh, a citation of this particular paper mentioning Whatever I have done in this particular paper. So that is why citations are really important For any research scholar They measure Uh, the importance of the research that he's doing It also measures that how much people are actually reading and citing his research So he's considered as uh, he or she is considered as prominent scientist in the research particular research area But anyways, so as you can see there are different different articles. So You can see the number of citations Right and you can see that the year that they were published And the this is the bar chart that shows you the number of citation that you're getting every year so in 2019 I have Less than 48 citation in 2008 and I have 48 citations So you can actually see every year how many citations you're getting It depends upon how many paper you published and further how many times they are getting cited Here you can see add article groups add articles add article manually So this is the tab where you can actually manually add articles Although when you publish article google scholar detects your article and suggests you whether you are the author of that article And immediately it adds up to your google profile, which is great. Right. So title. So in this in this section You can actually sort them on the basis of their title so You can see the articles are being cited as The alphabetical order, right? And if I click on this so they will be Again sorted on the basis of their citation So it's a good practice that you sort the article on the basis of citations in citation is the good measure of the research productivity all right Here you can see the co-author list of the co-authors that you publish the paper with right and And these are all the articles and when you click on particular article It will show you another pop of window where you can see all the details of that particular article Which is great and further if you click on the particular title it will direct you to the general website and you can you know download the article If the journal is accessible to your university or your institution You will get the article so you can read the article and you can download and save it You can use the article for your research purposes. So which is convenient, which is great, right? And what else so if you go back So you will be At the same window and it also gives you the related articles if I click it here I will get on the articles that are similar to my article So I can see who is working on the same research area. I can go through the research, which is great Okay, what else so? That was all about the particular article And this is pretty much about the google scholar profile If you are a researcher, you need to have the google scholar profile because When you apply for any job they ask you Now your google scholar profile Okay, so Now I'll go back and I can go to the library window library window. It's really interesting It can it can show you different different libraries if you have any library I don't have right now So you can make your own library and it is really convenient. You have the articles that you want In your library, right? So next thing is alerts so You can keep all those Research in your profile researchers in your profile and whenever they post the article you will get the alert for those so That means that how many researchers you are following in that particular research area Next is the matrices. This is really interesting. It gives you the Edge index of the different different journals. So you can find out different journals Which you want to Use for your publication or you want to select for your publication on the basis of their H5 index, right? So nature According to the google scholar has the highest h5 index, then you have Science, Lenset, Chemical Reviews, Nature Communication Then you have different different journal cases of research. Basically, they all have really high impact factor Okay, so google scholar also provides you the these journals as you can see the plus one as 23 position And its score is 176 I want to show you that there are some articles that I have published in plus one And you can also access because plus one is Open access general you can access the articles if you go to my profile I can access my plus one journals recent one is this If you go and visit to that website plus one is really good In keeping track of the various things. I'll show you later So this is the plus one article you can actually see the title and then list of the list of the authors abstract introduction We will make a separate video on the composition of a research article, right? So let me show you what additional feature plus one provides you so if you go here and Visit the particular website journal website Here you can you can actually see it provides you the views that how many people actually viewed your article and How many citations you have you can see there is no citation is recently got published But you can see the views that how many people are viewing your research, right? So this is really important because How you get a citation? Is you need to share your research with other people so that they can know about your research and when they write article They will cite you On the basis of what you have done But if you don't share your research with other researchers They are not going to get the knowledge of your research. So Your your paper is not going to be cited. It's a simple mechanism of citation, right, so This is really important that you share your article and I think plus one provides you Features to share your articles. I can't find it right now, but yeah, you can actually see media coverage So media coverage means if there is any media coverage that means your Paper is being covered in news or in any other blog. So you can also let plus one know and You can put all those information right there anyway, so Okay, so this is the different window that is NCBI window will will cover this one in different in different video lecture not for now. So we'll go back to the Google scholar. So this is how you know, you can click on the article. You can go to the journal website You can download all those articles and this is really interesting and it also gives you all the details You know, if you have any pattern, for example, I have one pattern. I have two pattern so one pattern if you click on this pattern and You go to the title and you will get The information of that pattern and you can also download the PDF of that pattern from the Google scholar Let me show you if you click on any article like Sorry, if you type Any particular article You will find this particular search results that will be provided by Google scholar and You see these two comments This is site. This is really really important. If you click on this one It will give you the option to download the citation You know, how convenient is that? If you if you are a user of n note, you will find it really convenient. So n note you can click here Also, you have a different option of web tag left man also, but I like n note. So If you click you will get the citation see how Easily I got the citation when I click this one. If I if you have an n note installed already It will direct you to this particular software and The download downloaded citation will be stored directly to the n note and then you can use that to actually site into your research article in one click Right, and you can manage the citation So I will also make videos on how to use n note and how to import citation how to change citation as per the general requirements, so which is extremely convenient because when your paper gets rejected from one journal You have to format it according to another journal. All right. So this is a different different Features of google score. Let me just go back and see whether I missed any other feature Uh, I don't think so. This is all the basic stuff about google scholar and they Uh, sometimes they also post some updates. So That will be really convenient to find out if there is any updates on that one You know, and google scholar is also providing you new article information on cobit 19 Because researchers are doing a lot of research on this particular topic So you can actually click directly and you can find what is the information in nature about cobit 19 What is the information in science about cobit 19? You can actually click and I can show you Look, so I was directed to nature and nature has all the cobit 19 articles that you can visit Which is great fantastic Okay, now if you go back and if you click on science and it will direct you to the science articles Fantastic. So that was all about I highly recommend You to actually make your google scholar profile and if you are a researcher and try to share the profile with other researchers so that they can read your Research and you can get more citation