Google Scholar suddenly no longer indexing a paper - how to fix?

[Jennifer Heise]

Try setting up a Google Scholar profile for the professor?
On Sep 24, 2015 12:20 PM, "Jonathan Eaton" <jeaton at london.edu> wrote:

> Has any list member encountered the following scenario with Google Scholar?
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> If so, how did they manage to resolve it?
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> Problem description
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> -          A senior professor reported to me that Google Scholar had
> abruptly stopped indexing one of his early career papers from the 1970s
> (published in a top-ranked peer reviewed journal)
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> -          The paper had about 200 citations in GS
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> -          But it has suddenly stopped appearing in GS search results
> despite the GS indexing and returning in results the other (adjacent)
> papers in the same journal / volume & issue
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> Steps taken
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> -          Checked with publisher’s production editor.  Metadata and DOI
> all correct on publisher’s website
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> -          Interestingly, all other articles in the same issue of the
> journal are being indexed / returned in Scholar results (even the papers
> published either side of his in the sequence)
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> -          Professor and I have separately tried to contact Google about
> this, to no avail (only automated support responses; no indication of when
> might be re-crawled)
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> -          I even created a free-standing simple web page containing the
> “missing” article’s correct metadata & DOI, formatted exactly per Google
> Scholar metadata requirements but after 2 months this has not fixed the
> problem
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> At the moment, we have not yet launched our Open Access repository that
> might help address this by programmatically exposing the article’s metadata
> for Google and wider OAI-PMH harvest (still 3-plus months away).
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> Any advice would be welcomed as our professor is somewhat mystified (and
> not a little frustrated) to have seen a career-founding paper suddenly lost
> from the global “map” along with its Google Scholar citations.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards
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> Jonathan Eaton
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