Demonstrate Your Impact: Manage Your Identity
Why Manage Your Identity?
Managing your researcher identity can enhance your metrics to be more reliable and consistent. There are several ways you can work to manage your research identity including:
- publishing consistently with the same name and initials;
- monitoring and managing your profiles in services such as Google Scholar; and
- registering for and using author identifier an profile tools such as an ORCID, or SciENcv.
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Considerations for Researcher Profiles
Researcher profiles can be a great tools to use to maximize impact of your work and connect with researchers globally. However, there are important considerations when using proprietary tools such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate:
- carefully read user licenses to see who owns what you upload to sites;
- know your rights to your work; and
- be careful of marketization of your works.
You might also consider how many profiles you'd like to manage. Having multiple profiles over different platforms that you must manage separately can be time consuming. Consider managing one or two that are most useful, and those that link to others for consistency.
Linking Your Profiles
Many of the researcher profile sites can be linked. Using an ORCID and ResearcherID, for example, can also display in databases such as PubMed and Web of Science. Similarly, SciENcv will link to ORCID and vice versa.
Researcher Profiles
- ORCID"ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized."
- SciENcv"A researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. SciENcv is available in My NCBI."
- Google Scholar
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Use the "my citations" feature to track your publications, citations, and compile metrics for your work.
- ResearcherID"ResearcherID provides a solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research community. Each member is assigned a unique identifier to enable researchers to manage their publication lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification."