To get credit for all of your research outputs they must be correctly attributed to you. Author ambiguity may occur due to a name change during a career, differences in publisher formatting of names, and researchers with same or similar names.
Unique author identifiers are important as a means of distinguishing yourself from others.
Three key author identifier tools are:
There are many academic and professional networking sites which provide a platform to:
Social networks can augment traditional means of scholarly communication, but with so many options available you should be clear on why you are using them and what you hope to achieve.
Make sure you understand the shortcomings if you choose to entrust your research to a networking site - papers uploaded may not be able to be removed if you change your mind later, and you (and those in your contact lists) may be subject to unsolicited emails or spam.
Google Scholar Profile
Industry leaders and other employers may search for potential employees with the talent they are looking for using internet search engines. Having a Google Scholar profile means that you are discoverable and have a platform to present your unique skills and expertise. Create a profile using the "My Citations" link in Google Scholar. Content can be updated automatically or manually. Make your profile Public so it appears in Google Scholar results. Google Scholar citation metrics can often appear inflated in comparison with ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID. This is a well recognised issue so it is important to clean up your record and remove incorrect entries.
Your profile can help you stay up to date with when you've been cited. Simply use the "Follow" feature and "Create alert" so you'll get an email whenever you receive a citation.
You can also stay up to date with key peers or collaborators. Go to their Google Scholar profile page and click "Follow new articles" or "Follow new citations" to receive an email every time they receive a new citation or publish a new article.
Publons is a free service for researchers to track and demonstrate their impact as authors, journal editors, and peer reviewers, in one place.
Manage the information on your public profile to make it easy for administrators, funders, journal editors and fellow researchers to see your bio, top publications, citation metrics, peer review history, and journal editing work. Any publications you add to your Publons profile will then be linked to your Web of Science ResearcherID when anyone searches for you on Web of Science. Publons uses the Web of Science Core Collection — 21,000 journals hand-selected and reevaluated by expert editors — to calculate citation counts and h-indices.
Academia.edu is a for-profit company. It is an academic networking site that allows you to:
For examples see Monash University on Academia.edu
More than 51 million academics have signed up with Academia.edu worldwide.
ResearchGate is a for-profit company. It provides a free social network for scientists in which you can:
ResearchGate has more than 12 million researchers.
Humanities Commons Network is a project of the office of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association.
It's development was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network owned by Elsevier.
LinkedIn and LinkedIn for Higher Ed Professionals
LinkedIn is a global, career and industry oriented, social networking service for all professionals. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.
Employers can post jobs and job seekers can post their CVs. LinkedIn profiles may be ranked highly in search engine results.
LinkedIn users include businesses and individuals who can create profiles and connections to others who may represent their real-world professional relationships.
Users can invite anyone to make a connection. It is recommended that users only accept connection requests from people that they know, or from those for which the connection may be mutually beneficial.
LinkedIn has more than 300 million registered users.
Twitter is a micro-blogging information network that allows users to send and read posts of up to 280 characters, known as “tweets”.
Both individuals and organisations use Twitter to communicate, network and keep up-to-date with their areas of interest. For researchers, Twitter can be used to:
It is easy to set up a Google Scholar profile to showcase your work and to make it more discoverable.
Set up a free, permanent, unique ORCiD identifier. Your ORCiD ID can easily link with other researcher ID schemes.
You can also create an ORCID ID through the link provided on your personal profile in Pure.
Adding an ORCID ID will increase the accuracy of the harvest of research outputs from Scopus into Pure.
If you have linked your personal profile in Pure with your ORCID, updates to your outputs in Pure can be automatically pushed to ORCID.
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