Who Creates a Google Scholar Profile?

This article uses data collected from Google Scholar to identify characteristics of scholars who have chosen to create a Google Scholar profile. Among tenured and tenure-track faculty with full-time appointments in PhD-granting political science departments, we find that only 43.7% have created a pr...

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Published in:PS, political science & politics political science & politics, 2020-07, Vol.53 (3), p.515-520
Main Authors: Kim, Hannah June, Grofman, Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic tenure
Careers
Datasets
Faculty Promotion
Gender
Gender Differences
International relations
Internet
Law Enforcement
Political science
Profiles
Resistance (Psychology)
Scholars
Tenure
The Profession
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Summary:This article uses data collected from Google Scholar to identify characteristics of scholars who have chosen to create a Google Scholar profile. Among tenured and tenure-track faculty with full-time appointments in PhD-granting political science departments, we find that only 43.7% have created a profile. However, among R1 faculty, young and early-career faculty are more likely to have Google Scholar profiles than those in older cohorts. Although subfield differences are largely nonexistent, there is a notably low proportion of theory faculty with profiles and a slightly higher proportion with profiles among methodologists. Moreover, within cohorts, those who are highly cited are more likely to have profiles than those who have low citation counts. We conclude by discussing implications of our findings, the increasing usage of Google Scholar and profiles, and the increasing importance of an online presence in the academy.
ISSN:1049-0965
1537-5935
DOI:10.1017/S1049096520000189