Getting your journal indexed on Google Scholar is a good way to widening the visibility and readership of your journal. However, little help is offered on how to index include on google scholar here (https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html) - which does not explicitly give you idea/link/contact on processing your request to include your journal on google scholar. I think many of you have faced a similar problem.
Can you share your experience if you have any of how you got your journal included on it? Or at least share the (google scholar) link of those journals already included on it?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_i_indexed_my_journal_with_google_scholar
First, GS is a crawler-based indexing database. That means, unlike Scopus or WoS, GS selects and indexes sources/articles automatically. Evaluation process to include sources/articles does not meet human intervening. Therefore, I do not think that you may need to submit a peparate application to Google or to contact them to request to index your source (s). However, you may need to configure your source website and articles to meet the requirements of the GS crawlers that facilitate them to collect information/index (from) your source(s). For example,
1) you need to make sure whether the text of your articles is searchable
2) your source site should be able to export bibliographic data/metadata of your sources/articles in a compatible format with GS
3) compatible metadata FORMATS with GS
4) keeping each article in a separate page
5) each article may need a separate web address
6) the interface of your source website should be able to crawl by the GS robots.
and so on.....
In brief, the only thing you may need is to place your source site and articles on the internet. GS will find and index your source/articles if they compatible with GS. However, it is noteworthy that this kind of crawler-based indexing services could have many issues compared to that of manual indexing services.
Not only in GS, but in many of the trusted academic platforms...
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