Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

About

Google Scholar is a search engine crawler operated by Google. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Google Scholar visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google Scholar
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Google Scholar has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google Scholar?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block Google Scholar?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block Google Scholar or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block Google Scholar

User-agent: Google Scholar
Disallow: /