There are often missed opportunities to ensure that all your research is correctly attributed to you, the researcher. This occurs though a variety of ways: publishing or presenting under various forms of your name, being confused with other researchers with the same, or similar name, changing your name, or having multiple family names. There are several ways to prevent this from happening, or to collate correctly all your publications if they are already scattered.
Researcher profiles (or researcher portals) can maximise your research impact by:
They provide institutions with a means to more accurately measure performance, and can assist in identifying potential collaborators and opportunities for research funding.
The most useful is ORCID, which will collate all your publications in one place. Other opportunities are provided by the Scopus Author ID, which will link all your publications indexed on Scopus; or the Web of Science ResearcherID, which will collate your publications indexed on Web of Science.
The advantage of using ORCID is that you can manually add other publications, such as conference papers and presentations, refereeing of papers for publishers (via Publon) and other professional activities such as newspaper or television interviews, YouTube videos, and lecture notes.
ORCID, short for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, provides a persistent digital identifier that helps researchers and scholars to distinguish their research activities from those of others with similar names. ORCID is being incorporated into publisher workflows, grant applications, and research repositories and search engines.
Here are instructions on how to:
ORCID provides connections to your Scopus Author ID and Web of Science ResearcherID. You can add your ID from the other system to your ORCID record to automatically update between systems.
Alternatively, you may search several other databases and select publications to add to your ORCID record.
You can also add works manually (useful for non-traditional works).
You can export publications from Google Scholar (or other sources) in BibTeX format and import the BibTeX file into ORCID.
To add links to other online systems such as a personal website or blog, LinkedIn, or others, you can add them as a website within your Personal information.
Scopus distinguishes between authors with the same name by giving each author a separate Scopus Author ID and grouping together all the documents written by that author. The author details display information such as: most recently published affiliation, number of references and documents in the database, their h-index, and the number of documents that have cited the author and subject areas in which they have published. It is only offered to authors that have papers published in journals indexed by Scopus. You cannot attach publications from other sources to your Scopus Author ID.
Use the Scopus to ORCID wizard to send Scopus Author ID details and publication list to ORCID. Sign into ORCID for instructions on how to do this.
A ResearcherID is a unique and persistent identifier that matches and disambiguates researchers in Web of Science. Researchers can use their ResearcherID to claim their published works and link them to their Researcher Profile for correct attribution.
A Web of Science Researcher Profile is the public-facing element of a Web of Science account which allows researchers to collate and display their publications, verified peer reviews, verified editor records, current editorial board memberships and metrics.
Read this document to find out more about setting up and populating a Researcher Profile:
Other networking opportunities (don't forget to add your ORCID ID):
Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
Set up a Google Scholar Citations profile