Inquiry about Google Scholar indexing issue

[임재윤]

Dear Community ! I Hope this messeage finds you well

This is Jae Yoon Lim from the Department of Library System Management at Seoul National University. 

I'm reaching out regarding a significant decrease in the indexing of our institutional repository, S-Space (https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/), on Google Scholar following our server and DBMS 

change in February 2023. 

Although we have 140,000 items in our repository, only 11,400 records are currently indexed in Google Scholar, a dramatic decrease from the previous 60,100 records.

For example, last year (2022), we could search for the following thesis on Google Scholar

- Title : 개인의 사회적 계층이 건강 및 사회생활 위험인식에 미치는 영향: the effect of social class on health and social risk perception

- URL :  https://hdl.handle.net/10371/128549

However, it's no longer indexed.

For contrast, here's an example of a well-indexed item:

- Title : Hybrid Training Method for Neuromorphic Hardware Based on Analog AND-Flash Arrays

- URL : https://hdl.handle.net/10371/193264

Still, our technical team and I cannot pinpoint the cause. We suspect it might relate to the language of metatags in some dissertations, but we're not certain.

Any guidance or further information about our repository's indexing issues would be greatly appreciated. Could we find out who is responsible for that work at Google Scholar ? 

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi,

I'd recommend reviewing our SEO guidelines for DSpace 7 to ensure you have everything setup properly: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Search+Engine+Optimization

We do receive feedback from the Google Scholar team occasionally, and we work to keep these guidelines updated based on their feedback (and also fix any issues they find in DSpace).

If those are not helpful, then I'd recommend following the Google Scholar troubleshooting guide.  It also has links embedded on how to contact them directly if you have issues. https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#troubleshooting

Tim

[임재윤]

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestions and for pointing me towards the SEO guidelines for DSpace 7. I greatly appreciate the effort you and your team put into maintaining these guidelines

I will thoroughly review the guidelines and also follow the Google Scholar troubleshooting guide as you recommended.

Your assistance in this matter is immensely helpful, and I am grateful for your prompt and detailed response.

Best regards,

Jae Yoon Lim

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