I don't you need an institutional email to open scholar unless your institution has subscribed to Google product for Educators . However, if you have Gmail account you can try it to see whether it will log you in.

You can create your account with or without institutional email address. The difference is in the verification of address which can appear or not in the heading of your site in Google Scholar.

Dear Md. Enayet Chowdhury,

I also tried to open RG account to one my friend but it asked institution account and I left it.

Thanks a lot. It worked at last.

Is it possible to link my researchgate account with google scholar?

I create GS account when I have Google Account but I haven't upload an article until I have email institution. So, to verify Google Scholar we would require a university email.

Regards

I agree with @ Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abushouk. It is working.

i have same problem with GS

I guess this is discrimination of people, who did research on temporary positions to the profit of professors. I have a number of publications in good journals, 18 years of research experience, and after expiration of my temporary position google requires instituion-related e-mail to "help my colleagues to find me" and show my publications in the search results. WTF? I would rather asked how to change absolutely unfair politics of Google about this.

Thanks.

How we can solve this problem?

Dear Mr. Anatoly V Berezkin, Its better to create your own mail server and then an email account for you on your own mail server. No need to be associated with any university compulsorily for doing research and creating google scholar account. Also you can buy your domain , may be in your name like Anatoly.Info then create your ow website on it alongwith email account like [email protected]

Dear Durga Prasad Sharma, thank you a lot, i already have domain, and your solution works! :-)

Your welcome Anatoly V Berezkin

So what happens when a researcher with scientific publications comes to the end of their contract at the institution but wants to keep and maintain their research profile online?? Not all researchers are employed at an academic institution all of the time! Google... hellooooo! can you sort this out please?

This account - [email protected] - is managed by bazeuniversity.edu.ng. If you lose access to it, you will also lose access to your Scholar profile. To keep your profile forever, sign in to your personal Gmail account.

As someone who will retire in a few months this is of interest to me, given the large number of retired researchers who are still active in appears very strange that Google doesn't have a better system, assumming the comments from Thomas Korimort are correct.

I would suggest such important matters not to bind, not to connect with gmail mail, because recently it is just gmail mail that is attacked by cybercriminals. There are many cases of hacking hacking and taking control of hackers on Gmail mailboxes.

unfortunately, it is not possible to verify a personal email. This is a real problem that google must handle, especially for independent or retired researchers.

Thomas Korimort

In spite of having institutional email ID still not verified by google scholar. My email ID is [email protected] but it gives an error and accepts only [email protected] which is not verifiable.

How do I register in google scholar

Yes listed my profile on Google scholar but no education institution email to verify it. can any one lend me an email address. It is censorship, google are the gatekeepers to anyone outside of the university staff vetting process.

The thought-mafia run the the state with media billionaires.

[email protected]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

thank you i have the same problem

"It is illegal because of data privacy to keep public records of someones scientific record on Google scholar without letting that person manage his/her data. Having no verifiable E-Mail address puts people having earned the rights of a PhD title or any other academic title in a state where they are robbed of their rights. Some kind of justice has to happen in that case." Re Thomas bove: maybe we can complain to Brussels?

No other way..

No other way Perhaps!

You just skip and continue if you want, this is the one option because they can't verify the correct institutional mail or personal mail they are restricted to only fixed extension.

Use ResearchGate instead! No such problem there (for a retired researcher, still working independently). And Google Scholar has only found half of my publications anyway!

Thomas - you're welcome to contact me on [email protected] or via ResearchGate (search Martin Johnson Thalidomide) if you wish to discuss this issue further.

Also re Thomas. People are allowed to think and write and sometimes to a high standard whilst never being in academia which can seem like a closed shop full of 'friends of friends'.

Iona - if you have had research accepted by peer-reviewed journals then you have been accredited. Working in academia just makes this process easier. ResearchGate accepts this process, and works very well to connect accredited researchers whatever their personal situation. Google Scholar seems to be better at identifying citations of your work, but not so good at establishing genuine networking. And it is very unhelpful to independent researchers.

But in terms of people finding your work and things you've been involved with who are not quite 'scholars' themselves and don't know about Researchgate etc., Google is better. And if someone is accredited with published peer-reviewed texts then that should be enough to make their profile searchable on Scholar. Anything else seems like snobbery and/or censorhship to me on their part.

Yes, quite. Google Scholar is only for students or staff within a university setting, a situation I have never been in. I can say, however, that Google and other search engines all pick up on research I have posted in ResearchGate, so visibility does not seem to be an issue.

As I said earlier, there are minor differences in the way they pick up citations etc. So if anyone can come up with a way to get Google Scholar to let independent researchers get verified without an institutional email address, I would like to know!

This should be opened for any research scholar.

Sir, You can create your Author Profile in Google Scholar, ORCID Id, Researcher-ID Web of science, Scopus Id, Microsoft Id,

One Guide is attached, Please see this.

Surendra. You are trying to be helpful, but miss the point that Google Scholar is only fully effective if you have an aademic afiliation. Researchgate will work with an academic affiliation, but works perfectly well without. This is about independent researchers, who are not staff or students of any university, such as myself.

I did a test of the suggestions on your guide (but you really should add Researchgate), and this is what I found.

Researcher ID (now Publons) did not work well at all (could not find me or my publications).

ORCID only works if you have an academic affilitation.

SCOPUS was very lmited. I cannot tell you how well

Microsoft academic might be good, I will never find out, because it wanted access to all my personal data, including my contact lists, so no way would I do that. The one that comes up tops is still Researchgate, with the best publications list, and quickest and easies to work with.

I think you can it by gmail.

Likewise, this 'institutional email' requirement also rejects the possibility of industry folks contributing to academics after reaching a professional and technical level to be independent of academic or commercial institutions. I worked for GE Astro Space, Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing Helicopter. After that career I went independent and spent 15+ years building an international patent portfolio as an independent inventor. I don't use my email from that period of my career any more, and why should I have to?

Now I am an active independent researcher publishing in the planetary sciences. After 8 years at this phase of my career, with plenty of bits-and-pieces publications as buildings blocks, I have a major contribution to publish. It is a finding of a critical error of omission by a 1960s NASA researcher which has led to stalled research in the geosciences that no one in that branch has the astro-related background to recognize, let alone to resolve. I have done both.

Google Scholar seems like the way to share it, right?

WRONG!

I have my own email. I have new knowledge to contribute to science. Google Scholar seems unable to allow this contribution due to a silly constraint that punishes independent contributors. Why is that?

I am seeing this message what does it means? Are we allowed to have a googoe scholar id without the institutional ID?

"This account - [email protected] - is managed by abc.edu.ng. If you lose access to it, you will also lose access to your Scholar profile. To keep your profile forever, sign in to your personal Gmail account"

Buy a new domain name in just 100 Rupees, take a small server space, and finally create an email address on your domain name and use that email for creating google scholar account

over

This my email and password.I hope to create an email address in your google scholar

[email protected]

I think this attachment my be useful for you

Regards

Useful

how I will open my google scholar account without institutional e-mail id.

To Sankar Dey: First, sign in into your Google (Gmail) account, and then open https://scholar.google.com/ (in new tab). You will be able to set-up your Google Scholar...

Dear all,

Thank you so much for your kind help and guide.

Regards,

Maryam

Yes

Hi Subhasree,

Would you mind letting me know how to do that?

Regards,

without publication no google scholar id creation and citations

To Pravin Kumar: There is workaround to have Google Scholar ID/Profile without publications. Simple, add any other publication during the procedure of ID creation, and when it is done, all you need is to remove added publication from your profile...

To Pravin Kumar: Did you try to apply a workaround from my previous answer?

I have applied but couldn't success

Thanks to All for nice contribution!

This a great one

not possible

Somewhat related question: what if you set up your Google Scholar Profile (with institutional email) from a non-gmail account? I cannot figure out how to login to my own profile, because Google Scholar expects me to be using my gmail account. I have looked far and wide for some help from Google, but I don't see any. Thanks.

Pravin Kumar

Anton Vrdoljak

Hello,

I guess you are doing great.

Have you resolved this challenge? If not, here you go!

Individual authors can upload papers to their own personal website, e.g., www.example.edu/~professor/jpdr2009.pdf, and add the link to the publications page, for example, www.example.edu/~professor/publications.html for ease of indexing, alongside other scholarly articles. The search robots look for the following when indexing:

- Full-text paper in PDF (.pdf)

- The title of the paper appears in a large font on top of the first page

- The authors of the paper are listed right below the title on a separate line, and;

- There's a bibliography section titled, e.g., "References" or "Bibliography" at the end.

Accordingly, the search robots normally find papers and include them in Google Scholar within several weeks. This will significantly improve the total number of citations on articles of an institution or a university because, at this stage, you have validated credibility and reputation.

If you need further help, Sign-Up Here https://www.notifyic.com/register.php

Thank you.

Md. Enayet Chowdhury

Thomas Korimort

Maryam Zanjirband

Pravin Kumar

Anton Vrdoljak

Pravin Kumar

Pravat Kumar Dhal

Chibuzor Chika

Subham Preetam

John A. Knox

Hello,

I guess you are doing great.

Here is a prospective solution.

For example - [email protected] will definitely solve the problem.

An online academy https://www.notifyacademy.sch.ng has been looking at similar problems, and how best to help solve them.

Notify Information Centre is a tier-1 Google Cloud partner focused on helping institutions, organizations, and small businesses increase communication and collaboration with Google Workspace for the regions - Southern Europe and Middle East Africa (SEEMEA).

Notify Academy is the prototype project with the objective of solving similar problems, helping students, academic scholars, entrepreneurs, SMB owners’ e.t.c who are interested in learning how Google tools and technologies can help them transform their various works or business.

Here are the key points -

(a) Academic researchers should be able to keep their Scholar profiles active and verified anytime, even if they switch between institutions or organizations, or if they lose access to previous institutional email accounts.

(b) Some academic researchers are still not able to create Scholar profiles using their institutional email - this problem has nothing to do with the researchers or scholars, it is the university or institution's webmasters or system administrators that are responsible for this specific bug or gap, for those on Google for Education (take note).

They need to ACTIVATE or ENABLE Scholar profiles for EVERYONE, in the Google Admin Console before anyone can create a profile on Google Scholar.

The reason for this is simple, Scholar profiles are "Additional Services" on Google Workspace for Education.

These are the steps to be completed by the university or institution webmasters or system administrators on Google for Education:

Log in to the Google Admin Console via https://admin.google.com

Apps > Additional Google Services > Settings for Scholar Profiles

Scholar Profiles > Status - ON/OFF for Everyone [ Done! ]

(c) There are some other categories of academic researchers burdened with a similar message below:

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This account - [email protected] - is managed by university.edu.

If you lose access to it, you will also lose access to your Scholar profile.

To keep your profile forever, sign in to your personal Gmail account.

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Well, the model is also focused on trying to help solve this challenge too.

So, academic researchers sign-up on the platform

Registration Link https://www.notifyic.com/register.php

An academy account is created, using this format [email protected]

On creation, they can use the academy account to:

- Sustain their verification status on Google Scholar.

- Keep their respective profiles active on relevant platforms, and;

- Most importantly, help them also maintain the integrity and reputation of their articles while publishing as an independent researcher, for proper citations and indexing e.t.c.

According to a study:

“When it comes to citations, articles with an institutional email address received more than double the number of citations, than those with a non-institutional email address.”

Source URL -

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/06/21/institutional-versus-commercial-email-addresses-which-one-to-use-in-your-publications

So, try it out? here is the registration link https://www.notifyic.com/register.php

And for academic researchers who wants their schools or institution to also run on Google for Education, kindly complete this form https://forms.gle/y8TV7G1DhmrwATFj6

Thank you.

I have an immense number of papers on Goggle Scholar that received citations but I am in the same boat since I became independent, although my work appears in Google Scholar.

Stanley Wilkin

Hi Stanley,

Good day to you Sir, I guess you are doing great with work, family, and also staying safe.

I am excited to help you solve this challenge with the help of the model I am researching and working on at this time.

I checked your Google Scholar profile see screenshot attached.

An academy account like [email protected] should fix your problem.

You can sign-up here https://www.notifyic.com/register.php

Thank you.

Update and answer to my own question: Unable to find a way to get edit or get rid of my old Google Scholar Citations profile, I finally made a new one. And then, when I did, I was asked, which one do you want to be public and which one do you want to be private? It was that simple. The only problem I have noticed since then is that, when I Google myself to find my GSC page, it's not coming up (yet, presumably).

After retirement from reputed education institute, I have become chairman of a manufacturing company. would I be accepted to be a google scholar?

Vijay Tulashiram Ingole Yes, you have two (2) options -

1. Use your own personal domain on Google Workspace, you can sign-up here https://forms.gle/hdF3s75SyRtHYX386 and;

2. You can sign-up and get an academy email with Notify Academy here https://forms.gle/7RrEmbj4Gr3X3zm86

Thank you.