I spent an hour or so today setting up a Google Scholar profile for my department. Here's a link. A few notes:
- Google Scholar is not overly amenable to group pages. Unless the department name is spelled out exactly, searches are difficult.
- As long as someone has a Google Scholar Profile set up, they are easy to find. Just search for their profile and add as a co-author.
- Only 8 out of our 19 faculty members have Google Scholar profiles set up. Apparently only ego-maniacs set up self-congratulatory citation over-inflating websites dedicated to tracking who is paying attention to their work.
- Here's mine.
- Here's John's.
- Damn. John has more cites than me.
- But my book has more cites than anything John has produced. So there's that.
- But this is about the Department. Not me.
- My book is the most cited thing in the Department.
- Ok, enough.
- If you didn't notice, The Ohio State University is an adjective friendly workplace. Officially we are the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
- ...and yes, the Oxford commas are official.
- I need to get to work on a second edition. I'm worried my citation count might fall off.
- Sounds like a plan.