Submit Your Publications

Google does not work directly with authors but with publishers of scholarly material. If you are an author of works appearing in such a journal and your articles do not appear in Google Scholar, try contacting the publisher of the journal to see if it provides content to Google Scholar.

Publishers are urged to work with Google in listing content with Google Scholar. When the articles you publish are indexed by Google Scholar, the visibility of your publication can increase and further your mission to provide scholarly publications of specific research or within broad areas of scientific research.

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When publishers provide several versions of an article such as a preprint version, a published version, abstracts, and conference paper versions, article’s it increases the rank increases. Doing this also improves the article’s position in search results through Google Scholar.

When providing articles to Google Scholar, particularly when there are access restrictions due to copyright, it is important to have a full abstract of the article. This allows researchers to determine if the article or paper is applicable to their study and whether a reprint of the entire article should be ordered.

Google Scholar recommends that publishers of scholarly books contact Google Books for indexing of their material (see Chapter 6). For now, Google Scholar is focusing on scholarly journals only and does not index trade publications. For complete publisher assistance, visit the online publisher information page found at: scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html.