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Fix Google Scholar blog post and redirect the old reviewers guidelines URL
- blog: citation_pdf_url was actually missing until 2026-09-15 (update callout),
Quarto (not the extension) generates the tags, correct citation YAML keys
(container-title, issn, pdf-url -> main.pdf), citation_fulltext_html_url,
warning to keep metadata in _quarto.yml, 16 (not 18) non-indexed articles
- guidelines-reviewers: alias for the old /guidelines-reviewers URL (404 in Search Console)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Google Scholar Indexing
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date: '2026-07-26'
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date-modified: '2026-09-16'
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description: How Computo ensures Google Scholar indexing and understanding URL selection
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categories:
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- indexing
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-`citation_journal_title` -- "Computo"
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-`citation_issn` -- "2824-7795"
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-`citation_pdf_url` -- link to the article PDF
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-`citation_abstract_html_url` -- link to the article landing page
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-`citation_pdf_url` -- link to the article PDF (`main.pdf`)
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-`citation_fulltext_html_url` -- link to the article landing page
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-`citation_doi` -- the article DOI
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### The `google-scholar` flag
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All Computo article repositories include `google-scholar: true` in their `_quarto.yml` configuration. When this flag is set, the [Computo Quarto extension](https://github.com/computorg/computo-quarto-extension) automatically generates the complete set of Highwire Press meta tags from the article's frontmatter and `citation:` block. This happens at render time -- no manual intervention is needed.
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All Computo article repositories include `google-scholar: true` in their `_quarto.yml` configuration. When this flag is set, [Quarto](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/create-citeable-articles.html#google-scholar) itself generates the complete set of Highwire Press meta tags at render time, from the document metadata (`title`, `author`, `date`) and from the `citation:` block. No manual intervention is needed.
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Here is what the configuration looks like in a published article's `_quarto.yml`:
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Here is what the configuration looks like in a published article's `_quarto.yml` (for a repository named `published-YYYYMM-name`):
Do not repeat metadata in the front matter of `main.qmd`. A `citation:` block there **replaces** the one in `_quarto.yml` entirely (dropping `url` and `pdf-url`), and an `author:` list that differs from the one in `_quarto.yml` leads to duplicated authors in the generated citation.
Beyond meta tags, Computo articles benefit from several features that help Google Scholar's crawlers:
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-**Sitemap**: Quarto auto-generates a `sitemap.xml` (thanks to `site-url` being configured in the main site's `_quarto.yml`), which helps search engines discover all article URLs.
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- **Sitemap**: Quarto auto-generates a `sitemap.xml` for the journal website (thanks to `site-url` being configured in the main site's `_quarto.yml`), and a post-render script adds the URL of every published article, which helps search engines discover them.
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- **Open access**: All articles are freely accessible without login walls or paywalls, meeting Google Scholar's requirement for crawlable full text.
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- **Stable URLs**: Each article has a permanent URL on `computo-journal.org` and a DOI, ensuring persistent access.
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- **Abstract visibility**: The full author-written abstract is clearly visible on each article's landing page.
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## Indexing status report
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::: {.callout-important}
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### Update: September 2026
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A September 2026 audit found that, contrary to what this post initially stated, the `citation_pdf_url` tag was **missing from all Computo articles** until September 15, 2026, as well as from two landing pages that were redirect-only. All articles have since been fixed:
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- every article now declares `pdf-url` in its `citation:` block, and the tag is present on all article pages;
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- article metadata was moved from `main.qmd` to `_quarto.yml`, which also removed duplicated authors from the generated citation of three articles;
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- re-indexing of all article pages has been requested through Google Search Console.
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The report below reflects the July 2026 situation, before these fixes.
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::: {.callout-note}
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### Report date: July 2026
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The following status was verified by searching Google Scholar for each published article.
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### Not yet indexed in Google Scholar
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The following 18 published articles were **not found** in Google Scholar as of July 2026:
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The following 16 published articles were **not found** in Google Scholar as of July 2026:
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