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Google Scholar

Name: Google Scholar
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Google Scholar uses a bot to crawl and index scholarly literature from academic publishers, repositories, and university websites. This populates its academic search engine. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a web crawler operated by Google. Google Scholar uses a bot to crawl and index scholarly literature from academic publishers, repositories, and university websites. This populates its academic search engine. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Google Scholar

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Scholar crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Google as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Scholar originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Google Scholar

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Googlebot-IA/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Google Scholar from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Googlebot-IA/
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Scholar full access
User-agent: Googlebot-IA/
Allow: /