Google Scholar Profiles

A Google Scholar profile is a public page listing what one researcher has published and how often that work has been cited. Bayan lists the profiles its academic staff maintain, so that the university's research can be found in one place by anyone who goes looking for it.

Why the university lists them

A department's teaching is visible from its curriculum. Its research is not, unless somebody publishes where to find it. A prospective student choosing whom to work with, a researcher abroad looking for a counterpart here, an employer checking that a signature on a report means something — all three are asking the same question, and a citation profile answers it without the university having to make a claim on the academic's behalf.

That last point is the important one. The profile is the academic's own account of their work, hosted by a third party and assembled from indexed publications. The university links to it. It does not write it.

What a profile is not

• Not a complete record. Scholar indexes what it can find, which favours work with a digital trail and undercounts books, chapters and anything published offline.
• Not a ranking. A citation count reflects the size and age of a field as much as the quality of a paper, and counts are not comparable across disciplines.
• Not maintained here. Merges, corrections and removals can only be made by the person who owns the profile.

Setting one up

1. Create the profile with your university email address, so the affiliation is verified rather than merely typed
2. Set the affiliation to Bayan University and name your college and department
3. Review the publications Scholar has attached to you and remove any that are not yours — name collisions are common
4. Add by hand the work Scholar has not indexed
5. Make the profile public; a private profile cannot be linked to
6. Send the link to the office that keeps the list

Keeping it accurate

Names transliterate from Kurdish and Arabic in more than one way, and one researcher can end up split across several profiles or several spellings. Settle on one spelling and use it on everything you publish, accept Scholar's merge suggestions when they are right, and update the affiliation if you move.

Having yours listed

Only the link you supply is published. The university does not create profiles for staff, and it does not guess which profile belongs to whom. Send yours through Contact; staff entries are shown under Instructors.