Editing a Scholar

Scholar Sync Documentation

Click any researcher's name from All Scholars to open their edit screen, organized into three tabs.

Author Details

The same fields available when adding a researcher: Full Name, Position / Title, Affiliations, Thumbnail Image, Interests, Citations Total, h-index, i10-index, and Author Page URL.

Sync-protected fields. Interests, Citations Total, h-index, and i10-index are normally kept current by automatic sync. If you manually change one of these, that specific field is locked from being overwritten by future syncs — your edit is preserved. Check the field's Re-enable sync box if you'd rather let Scholar Sync take over that field again.

Articles

Lists every publication stored for this researcher. Use Add New Article to add one by hand — useful for older work that predates automatic syncing, or that a sync wouldn't otherwise pick up.

Sync Details

For a researcher that was found and imported through search, this tab shows a Sync Articles button to trigger a sync on demand, plus a Sync History table (Date, Type — Automatic or Manual, Outcome, Added, Updated, Message) recording every sync attempt.

For a researcher added manually, this tab instead explains that they have no linked Scholar ID and can't be synced — there's nothing to trigger here.