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Do I need a Google Scholar profile?

Key answer

It is not mandatory, but the community notes officers and RFEs reference article indexing, and a profile with your papers and citations is a convenient public proof. Articles appear in the profile within two-three weeks if the data matches; a bare index without a field comparison says little by itself.
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Community answers

The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

  • Articles will appear in your account within two to three weeks, provided you have an account and the details in the article match those in your profile. You can also manually add an article using the 'add' function.

  • If they do not want to count the criterion, it is easiest for the officer to say that your articles are not indexed, the journal is not scientific, or the articles are not for scholars. A profile with indexing preemptively addresses some of these objections.

  • If you include your index, explain what the average figure is for researchers in your field, and prove this with public data.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

Why "Scholarly authorship" gets refused

Accepted in 44% of challenged petitions (86 of 196); not an approval rate.

The venue is not accepted as professional, trade or major media - where it was published is judged separately from the article itself.

All refusal grounds and the sample

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