Google Scholar Profiles are incredibly common and useful tools for researchers. They allow researchers to track their citations and publicly show their work. For more on Google Scholar, see our LibGuide on Scholarly Identity. If you already have a Google Scholar profile, it is incredibly easy to pull citations from that profile into ORCID.
The slideshow below gives instructions on how to import works from Google Scholar in seconds. If you have any questions, please contact either your Subject Librarian or the librarian listed on the "Basics and Benefits" page.
Navigate to your Google Scholar Homepage
Check the boxes next to your publications. You can either check them individually (and choose which works to include or leave out) or check the box at the top that automatically checks all boxes.
Once you've chosen which works you would like to add to ORCID, click on the "Export" button above the list to reveal a dropdown menu.
Choose the BibTeX option from the dropdown menu.
Once you choose "BibTeX", Google SCholar will take you to a site with the raw BibTex data displayed. You do not need to review this data if the data in your Google Scholar profile was correct. It is simply designed for a computer to read.
Right click anywhere in that window and choose "Save Page As...".
Choose a filename (or leave it as the default "citations") and choose a place to save the file that you will be able to find again. Your desktop and your downloads folder are good options. Click "Save".
In your browser, navigate to your ORCID profile. You can get there by going to bc.edu/orcid.
Scroll down to the "Works" section of your profile and and click "Add Works".
From the dropdown menu that appears, choose "Import BibTeX"
A new box will appear underneath the "Works" heading. In that box, click "Choose file".
Navigate to where you saved the BibTeX file from Google Scholar and select it. Click "Open".
ORCID will load your citation.txt file into your profile under Works. At this point, you can choose to keep some or all of your works. There are save and delete buttons next to each individual work, and there is a "Save All" button that the top. You should "Save All" if you've already selected the ones you want to bring in from Google Scholar.
You've now imported your Google Scholar profile into ORCID. Congratulations! Now see how to connect it to Scopus to get automatic updates when you publish in Journals listed in Scopus.
At this point, you can choose to hide the "Import BibTeX" box by clicking "Hide Import BibTeX". This step is optional, and only you can see this box on your profile.
At this point, you can edit individual works by clicking on the pencil icon in the bottom of the entry. This will allow you to add more metadata if you would like, or alternative links to the work (such as an OpenAccess link to eScholarship@BC).
