Life Science Product Citations: Google scholar vs Outsourcing
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In this blog:
- Why is collecting citations for antibodies and other reagents important?
- What are the steps involved in using google scholar for citation collection?
- Try out the CiteAb Citation Widget as a way to outsource the process!
As you may already be aware, displaying citations for your reagents is really important to researchers evaluating products.
They use this data to help plan their experiments and check that the product is right for their projects ahead of purchasing.
Overall, citation data helps to support scientists, drive engagement and increase conversions on your webpages.
But, are you spending hours finding these citations manually?
Manual life science citation collection
Manually collecting citations to show on your product pages may look a bit like this:
- Searching for your company name on google scholar or pubmed on a weekly or monthly basis
- Sifting through each publication to confirm that your company’s product was actually used
- Checking the publication information as well as the reagent information, and the context of reagent use
- Copy and pasting this information into a spreadsheet
- Uploading data to product pages on your website
If you are collecting published images as well, this can add many more steps. You may want to crop images to only show the relevant experiment, and copy across the figure legend.
Including experimental data on your website would also require finding information like application or reactivity elsewhere in the paper, ensuring it is linked to the product use, compiling this data, and displaying this data to scientists.
This sort of workflow may often be the way small companies go about collecting citations before finding it becomes a huge drain on resources.
Outsourcing citation collection skips many time-consuming steps
Here’s what outsourcing citation collection with a plug-in web tool can look like:
- Up to a day of developer time to install (a one-off commitment)
- Product citations update automatically on webpages, within a user-friendly interface
One such option to outsource your citation collection is to use our Citation Widget, a website plug-in that blends seamlessly into pages displaying citations we collect.
The tool updates regularly so the most up-to-date data is shown. This can include experimental annotations and published images, as well as product citations.
This means there is very minimal maintenance required once installed, saving the many steps involved in manually updating citations on your site and allowing you to channel your time into other projects to help your company progress.
Comparing manual citation collection vs our Citation Widget
Try out the Citation Widget
If you’re currently spending time manually collecting citations and are interested in learning more about outsourcing citation collection for your company, get in touch with the team who can walk you through the set-up process and any other questions you may have.
You can also download a list of FAQs below to find out more about our widget!
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- Jemina and the CiteAb team
