For those who don’t know, Google Scholar or Academic is a search engine to locate academic documents such as articles, books, theses and more. Its sources are as varied as university presses, repositories, and academic organizations.
We tell you all this because in this powerful search engine especially suitable for these tasks, Sir Isaac Newton has his own verified email. According to the aforementioned Google Scholar platform, Isaac Newton is a Professor of Physics at MIT with a verified email in the mit.edu domain.
This is something that a mathematics professor at California State University has recently discovered. Thus, he wanted to make a special mention of this very interesting discovery. All this after discovering that Isaac Newton had verified his email on Google Scholar. In his publication, the professor also pointed out that Sir had recently obtained a professorship at MIT.
In this way, it has already been confirmed that Isaac Newton’s profile on Google Scholar has a verified email at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT. As it could not be otherwise, he is described here as a Physics teacher. First of all, something we must keep in mind is that a verified email is not actually a verified identity.
With everything and with this and after the curious discovery of this professor, many wondered how it is possible that Sir Isaac Newton has his own verified email. Some speculation pointed to an official representative managing the Google Scholar profiles of former professors.
The mystery of Newton’s mail remains unclear
It is also interesting to know that creating an author profile in Google Scholar and verifying the email address is easier than it seems. You already know that verified profiles on platforms such as X, Facebook or Instagram have generated a lot of controversy lately. Especially after these have moved towards payment-for-verification models. Scammers here have abused the opportunity to deceive people.
Therefore, it is understandable that the presence of the word Verified on public profiles may be misinterpreted by some on these social platforms. On the other hand, if this occurs in a Google Scholar profile, it does not confirm that Google has verified the identity of the profile owner. Instead, the profiles tell us that the email address has been verified and hosted at that institution.
In fact, when trying to configure a new profile in Google Scholar, we find a simple form. This asks for the author’s name, their position at an institution, and an email address that can be optionally verified. As you can see, this is not too different from what we see on any other website.
This means that the identity is not verified here, only the email address, and from there it will appear as Verified. In short, coming across a Google Scholar profile of a verified email of a long-dead author is not as strange as it may at first seem. In this particular case of Newton, anyone who worked or studied at MIT could have created a profile for the late Isaac. Mystery solved.
