# Holy Cow! I'm on Google Scholar! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-im-on-google-scholar/491797 "2009-04-03T01:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-im-on-google-scholar/491797/1 "2009-04-03T01:58:31Z")
Apparently, Google Scholar somehow picked up an abstract for an oral presentation I gave last November to the Fluid Dynamics division of the American Physical Society. It’s odd, to say the least, since I don’t believe it was actually published anywhere other than the program of the conference. Either way, it’s my first time getting my name published anywhere, substantial, and I’m psyched! It feels like I’m actually going to get somewhere in the world, and I’m excited about it. Woo! I should probably post a [link](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&q=%22Measurement+of+Forces+on+a+Solid+Sphere+During+Impact+with+a+Free+Liquid+Surface%22&btnG=Search). Note: I found my name by doing a vanity search on Google, but I came up with the one in the link so that I wouldn’t be giving my name away. Although I guess now that it would pretty easy to guess seeing as there are only four names on the abstract. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-im-on-google-scholar/491797/2 "2009-04-03T12:52:18Z")
Congratulations! Now that you’ve got a taste of fame you’ll be publishing more just to see the cites. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-im-on-google-scholar/491797/3 "2009-04-03T13:40:59Z")
So I did a vanity search and was up to 33 papers when I gave up. Apparently I’m a co-author on a paper that I didn’t know about. Have to talk to someone about that. Very much not right. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-cow-im-on-google-scholar/491797/4 "2009-04-03T13:48:46Z")
Me too. Cool. I’m also cited in Wikipedia, but only the Icelandic version (and as far as I can tell, needlessly… they reproduced the entire contributor list for one of those one-volume coffee-table “encyclopedias” that I contributed to out of financial desperation).