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Research Publishing & Impact: Researcher Profiles

• Introduction
• Getting Published
• Read and Publish AgreementsToggle Dropdown
• Researcher Profiles & NetworksToggle Dropdown
• Measuring ImpactToggle Dropdown
• Open Textbooks Project

Create a Researcher Profile

Use these tools to help you establish your personal researcher profile. To solve the issue of author name ambiguity and attribution some scholarly agencies have developed researcher identification systems. These tools can help increase your visibility and the discoverability of your work. You can also archive your work in a research repository to make it more accessible. 

Why should you care about having a Researcher Profile?

Increasingly being asked for this by funding agencies on grant applications Connects you to your work Eliminates name ambiguity Improves discoverability of your work Links your outputs, across multiple platforms, together

Your ID stays with you throughout your career (no matter your affiliation) Find collaborators Get citation metrics Some publishers of journals are now also asking for Identifiers

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ORCID iD

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  ORCID® (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) provides you, as a researcher, with a unique, 16-digit ID that you keep throughout your career. Connect others with your research by making it public; increase your impact! Follow the links below to learn more.
  
  Contact your Subject Librarian for support on building your ORCID record.

• NZ ORCID Hub (Academics only)

  Otago academics can register through, or link using their existing ORCID iD
• ORCID

  Free, persistent digital identifier and record that can link to other profiles.

You can easily link your ORCID profile with your Scopus Author ID and  ResearcherID.
 

Listen to what Otago University academics have to say about their ORCID iDs

• ORCID BibTex 2022

Google Citations

Google Scholar will generate a list of publications from sources it indexes and show an h-index.  

This can be particularly useful for people in interdisciplinary subjects.

Create a public Google Scholar Citations profile.

Learn more:

• About setting up a Google Scholar Citations profile

Scopus Author ID

Scopus Author Identifier assigns each author a unique number.

This helps distinguish between authors who share common names, and to standardise name variations across publications.

Scopus Author Identifier uses an algorithm that matches publications with author names based on, e.g. affiliation, address, subject area, source title, dates of publication citations, and co-authors.

Researchers are automatically assigned a Scopus Author ID when they publish in a journal indexed by Scopus.

Locate your record and find your assigned Author ID number.

Learn more:

• About setting up a Scopus Author ID
• Scopus Author ID - 5 fast steps

ResearcherID now Publons

Your existing ResearcherID (with Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters) was migrated to the Publons site in 2019, so Claim your publications to accrue impact.

Become a Peer Reviewer, as this can stimulate your ability to appraise scholarly writing... and perhaps in turn, improve your own writing.

• become involved in reviewing colleagues' papers
• join Publons as a reviewer or editor, or as a space to track your research impact
• Web of Science Academy offer free online peer reviewer training

Add any peer review work you do to your CV too.

Export your publications from Publons to ORCID

Showcasing your research to advance your career - with Web of Science and Publons

Set up your ResearcherID