Are journal entries searchable through Google Scholar?

[rickyjeffrey]

Hi

I love the site.

Are journal entries searchable through Google Scholar? In the same way articles in traditional academic journals will show up in Google Scholar searches. If not, is this something you're hoping to establish in the near future?

Thanks
Ricky

[arfon]

Hi @rickyjeffrey, thanks for the feedback! As far as I'm aware we're not currently indexed by Google Scholar. I know that some services (such as Altmetric) have begun tracking references to us but ultimately I expect this will happen if Google Scholar start ingesting the Zenodo records (where we get our DOIs from).

@lnielsen - do you know if Google Scholar indexes Zenodo?

[lnielsen]

Zenodo is unfortunately only being selectively indexed by Google Scholar (1.5k out of 30k records), and we haven't found a way yet to get the rest in yet.

[arfon]

Zenodo is unfortunately only being selectively indexed by Google Scholar (1.5k out of 30k records), and we haven't found a way yet to get the rest in yet.

Do you know what logic is being applied here? Is this something worth reaching out to the Google folks about?

[kettner]

Thank you for this post, I stumbled upon it when searching for zenodo and tracking of citations, and it is exactly what I'm looking for.

@lnielsen would you know what selection criteria Google Scholar is using to to get Zenodo records into Google Scholar? And is there a way to track if the number of ingested Zenodo records in Google Scholar has increased over time?

Thank you!

[alexpacini]

Google has some rules here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing

[lnielsen]

We're in contact with Google regarding solving the issue.

[Maxiaojian66]

If the brief ideas can be searchable through Google Scholar, that will be a good thing to spread the idea itself.

[ikashnitsky]

@lnielsen could you please inform when there will be an outcome of your checking with GS?

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi, any updates on this?

[lnielsen]

Yes, we need to change the entire URL structure on Zenodo which is a very big change, hence it's going to take some time to fix. Google Scholar only wants to index text-based content which is an issue when dealing with mixed-content repository like Zenodo. GS requires that the content is split out by URL, and unfortunately cannot do this via e.g. meta-tags or similar. Also, we need a complete index update on GS which happens every 6 months, so this is likely going to take some time before being fully resolved.

[christofs]

Hi there, are there any updates or new developments on this issue?

[yaxu]

Any more updates @lnielsen ?

[tashrifbillah]

Is there an update about getting Google Scholar to track Zenodo DOI? I mean my Zenodo DOIs don't appear on Google Scholar.