Search Engines

Many of the IEEE Xplore content users come from search engines. IEEE is committed to collaborating with search engine providers to make the IEEE Xplore content more discoverable, linkable and accessible from all major search engines.

IEEE's Collaboration with Google Scholar

IEEE's Protocol for Search Engine Providers

The use robots or intelligent agents to access, search and/or systematically download any portion of IEEE Xplore is not permitted. For more details, see our Terms of Use.

If you are interested in indexing our content, please contact us via onlinesupport@ieee.org to set up an arrangement.

SEO Tips for Authors/Editors

Choose your keywords (including phrases, synonyms, related words) carefully, consistent with your field. Consider finding keywords on Google Trends and Google Adwords keyword tools.
Make your title short, descriptive and relevant. The first 55 characters should be important.
Repeat your keywords in title, abstract, headings, subheadings, caption, and throughout the article.
Caption everything. Use subheadings.
Build up links to the article, from personal profile pages, institutional sites, social media, colleague pages/sites, and more
Refer to author names, initials and titles in a consistent way. Avoid errors in author names or titles.

Report Problems on Article Search in Google Scholar

If you notice your author name is missing or incorrect for your article in Google Scholar, report to the journal editors first. If the problems exist on IEEE Xplore, corrections should be made on IEEE Xplore first. The corrections will be picked up by Google Scholar in the next full indexing of the IEEE Xplore content, which happens twice a year.
If the problems only exist in Google Scholar, ask your journal editors to contact IEEE Online Support, which will ask Google Scholar to further investigate.

Tips for Readers/Researchers

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