google scholar support

[alee]

https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html

[alee]

Examples from https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing

<meta name="citation_title" content="The testis isoform of the phosphorylase kinase catalytic subunit (PhK-T) plays a critical role in regulation of glycogen mobilization in developing lung">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Liu, Li">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Rannels, Stephen R.">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Falconieri, Mary">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Phillips, Karen S.">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Wolpert, Ellen B.">
<meta name="citation_author" content="Weaver, Timothy E.">
<meta name="citation_publication_date" content="1996/05/17">
<meta name="citation_journal_title" content="Journal of Biological Chemistry">
<meta name="citation_volume" content="271">
<meta name="citation_issue" content="20">
<meta name="citation_firstpage" content="11761">
<meta name="citation_lastpage" content="11766">
<meta name="citation_pdf_url" content="http://www.example.com/content/271/20/11761.full.pdf">

[cmbarton]

This is good. Looking at the Google Scholar info also suggests an alternative approach. Auto-generate a PDF of the model title, authors, description, etc.

[cmbarton]

Oddly, there are at least a few models that show up in Google Scholar. For example:

Computational Model Library C Network, OUSNSFWB Data - comses.net This model extends the original Artifical Anasazi (AA) model to include individual agents, who vary in age and sex, and are aggregated into households. This allows more realistic simulations of population dynamics within the Long House Valley of Arizona from AD 800 to … Related articles

This links back directly to the CML. Note the "title" and "author"

[alee]

I was hoping that the structured data / codemeta we put in every codebase page would magically solve this problem but it looks like that's a different Google team than Google Scholar. I think the easiest thing to do is add citation_* meta keywords, that should be straightforward.

[cmbarton]

That would be great

[cmbarton]

That would be great

Does that mean you were successful?

[alee]

I guess not, since there is still only 2 models available in google scholar.. I'll see if I can find anyone on the google scholar team we can talk to and see why things aren't getting indexed properly

[cmbarton]

It's as strange that 2 models ARE properly indexed as it is that the rest of them are NOT.

[alee]

I think we might be failing some of the content guidelines..

https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#faq

https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#content

Perhaps we can try converting model documentation to a PDF and adding the citation_pdf_url meta tag to point at that PDF file.

[cmbarton]

PDF's would be better for docs anyway. Probably a lot are already in PDF format.

[cmbarton]

I spent a bit of time looking at models that come up in Google Scholar. The titles are hot linked to our library--equivalent to hot linking a paper title to the journal page. So that part works fine. The place that's different is for the authors. If I search for one of my papers, my name is hot linked to my Google Scholar profile. But I search for a model, my name is not hot linked. So there is no connection between the author of a model and the GS profile. Without that link, the model info cannot show up on the GS profile page. I entered some of my models manually but they don't show citations. This may be because the Google data entry for the model links by author and not by title. I don't know if this is helpful but maybe it can guide to where we need to look to make the final part of this work.