Research Guides: Measuring Research Impact and Quality and Predatory Publishing: Researcher Profiles

Researcher Profiles

ORCID Author Profile

What is ORCID?
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers.

Why should I have an ORCID ID?
ORCID allows you to easily and uniquely attach your identity to all kinds of scholarly work: datasets, articles, books and book chapters, media stories, theses, protocols, patents, etc. ORCID helps researchers distinguish your work from other scholars with similar names.

ORCID IDs are now being used by many journal publishers and databases such as Nature Publishing Group, IEEE, PLoS, Scopus and Web of Science.

How do I use my ORCID ID?
Include your ORCID identifier on your Webpage, when you submit publications, apply for grants, and in any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work.

How do I get an ORCID ID?
Register for a free ORCID ID
ORCID registration quick start guide
Once you register, you can enhance your ORCID record with your professional information and link to your other identifiers such as Scopus and Web of Science.

ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript or dataset can now opt to have their ORCID record automatically updated when their work is made public. Auto update details

How do I find ORCID IDs?
ORCID ID's are designed to be open and accessible to all.
Go to the ORCID registry to look up your own ORCID ID or to look for ORCID IDs of other researchers. Click on an ORCID ID to see a researcher's list of publications.

Google Scholar Citations Google Scholar Citations profile

Your profile is created from data found in Google Scholar after you register.

Scopus Scopus Author Profile

Your author profile is created from data in Scopus. No registration is needed.
Check, Correct, Submit: How to ensure accuracy in your Scopus Author Profile

Academia.edu

Your profile is created from social networking analytics generated on Academia.edu after you register.
Academia.edu is a commercial site despite the .edu in it's address.
Users can upload or download papers from other profile pages. If papers are not uploaded, one can request to have the paper sent by the author/contributor. Caution: Check your copyright agreement with the publisher before uploading articles.
Tracks how many times the paper has been downloaded.
Used by humanities scholars.
Metrics Mania the case against Academia.edu (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2018)

Humanities Commons

Nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work
Project of the office of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association
Includes an open-access repository, the Commons Open Repository Exchange

ResearchGate

Create account to upload papers
Caution: Check your copyright agreement with the publisher before uploading articles.
If an unpublished work is uploaded, site can generate a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Users can download papers from other profile pages.
Tracks how many times papers have been read, downloaded or cited and how often your profile is viewed.
Used by scientists and social scientists.
Publishers escalate legal battle against ResearchGate (Oct. 2018)

ResearcherID example

Researcher ID

Your profile is created from data found in Web of Science after you register.
Allows you to track your work as an author, peer reviewer and journal editor
Profile does not display publicly
Additional information

Mendeley Profile

Personal profile on Mendeley, a bibliographic management tool.
Future plans include linking usage information from Mendeley to these researcher profiles.

Microsoft Academic Search Profile
Your profile is created from data found in Microsoft Academic Search after you register.

NIH Biographic Sketch example

Biosketches (National Institute of Health)

NIH researcher profile required for both grant applications and progress reports.
SciENcv--tool to assist with creating researcher biosketch

Amazon author page example

Amazon.com Author Pages

Add your biography, photos, blog, and video to an author page that will display in Amazon
Managing your author profile page

Researcher Profiles

ORCID
This website creates a unique digital identifier for each scientist. If you are doing a cited search then it is not possible to separate two scientists with same last name and initials. The ORCID ID makes it possible to isolate the scientist or researcher that you are evaluating.
LinkedIn
To locate researcher profiles, you can look at Linked In, to see their CV. You will have to log in to Linked in site with a user ID aand password. The website is free.

Examples

Author search on John R. Sowa in the Web of Science (WOS)

I chose this name because the author is John R. Sowa Jr. How do you add that in a search? This is when the ORCID number becomes valuable.

In WOS, I select Author and search for Sowa JR.

I get 69 records.

Click the first records.

Then click on the ORCID ID displayed after all the author names.

Click on the ORCID ID. You will see almost like a CV. At the bottom you will see he has 35 articles.

Then I go back to the Search page in WOS and paste the ORCID ID in Author identifier field.

Did a search and got 33 records. These are the most correct. You see Dr. Sowa’s father is a chemist too!

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