In August, Amy wrote about Google Scholar Citations, a service that “provides a very handy way to keep track of citations to your work.” At the time, however, Google Scholar Citations was “in a limited launch and [was] not accepting new users.”
Fortunately that changed on November 16. Google Scholar Citations is now open to all users. Setting the service up proved easy. When I first logged in, Google Scholar Citations presented me with a list of articles authored by “Ryan Cordell.” Apparently there is another Ryan Cordell who works in the sciences, and so I had some paring to do. As much as I wanted to claim “Near-infrared fluorescence imaging with fluorescently labeled albumin: A novel method for non-invasive optical imaging of blood-brain barrier impairment after focal cerebral ischemia in mice,” I deselected it and the other scientific articles in that initial list, leaving only my publications. That was it—I can now log in and see if my articles have been cited and by whom. I did discover a citation that I was unaware of prior to using Google Scholar Citations, so the service had immediate value for me.
How about you? Will use this service? Do you use another program or service to track the influence of your scholarly work? Tell us about it in the comments.
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