How long does it usually take for published articles to show up on Google Scholar?

My article showed up in a few days. Since google is crawling, I believe (although I am not certain), that updating other sources such as policy, government, medical repositories and other resource hubs that allow you to update fields, add links etc, without needing to upload the article, increases the external links with the article page. This might not be necessary to expedite the process, but if the article is not showing up within the normal period of time (which could be a week), I believe this would be a good step to take. This advice also applies for anything else such as websites and blogs. Actually my repository link showed up in google before the actual journal page did!


My article was published online in Elsevier journal and it took less than 7 working day to appear in Google Scholar. "Appear" here indicates that I can search the title of my paper in Google Scholar and the website points out my paper seamlessly.

FYI, I received the notification of the paper in my Google Scholar profile in around the same time.

I think, there might be discrepancy between publisher regarding time to appear in Google Scholar.


I have had very varying times.

My most recent one was already there by the time I noticed my online version was up. However, my first one had many issues with Google Scholar, when it was first online they once combined the citations of my paper with someone elses. They then disconnected it and I could not find it again for a few more months. I think it took about 4-6 months overall for this one to appear and work.