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Improving visability
Improving visability
What are research metrics? Do research metrics measure quality? What does ‘Responsible Metrics’ mean? Should you use metrics? Which kinds of metrics do people use? Which is the best metric to use? Where can you get further help with metrics? use this PPT to get your head around it.
There are so many tools and ways to either monitor your academic impact or improve your academic exposure. If you ask yourself “what do I do with all the impact related tools I keep hearing about?” you may want to look at the impact resources listed below, they might help you to narrow down the options for you to act upon in order to improve or monitor your academic impact.
Google Scholar
You can enhance your findability by creating an account and telling Google which publications in their database are yours. After taking these steps searches on your name will show your profile on top of the results. The profile itself shows your list of publications in Google Scholar with basic metrics. Besides journal papers, it may also include books and reports.
If you do not yet have a Google account, go to Google and create it.
Go to Google Scholar, make sure you are logged in and click “My Citations”
Follow instructions to create your profile and add or remove publications that are yours or not yours
You can get an overview of people at our institution with a Google Scholar profile
Once you have activated your profile, Google Scholar automatically gives you reading suggestions based on your citations (on the homepage and a full list by clicking “my updates”)
You can track new papers and citations (of yourself and/or others)
More about Google Scholar Citations
Because new articles are automatically added to authors’ profiles it is wise to check regularly, because in rare cases articles may be wrongly attributed to you.
ORCID
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a non‑proprietary, international ID that provides you with a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher. It is strategically important because it enables all databases to automatically link publications to you by your ORCID. At ORCID you can create a profile, link it to your Scopus ID, ResearchID and/or import publications from a so called cross-ref search. Further functionality is being developed.
Go to ORCID, register for an ORCID ID (under “for researchers”) and complete your profile
Click “import research activities” and follow instructions to import publication details from, for example, Scopus
Click “view public ORCID record” to check whether it does not show anything you do not like to be publicly visible
Identifier
The Scopus Author ID is not a researcher profile site, but helps author recognition and disambiguaty when searching publications. Many researchers already have a Scopus ID without realising it. By checking the correctness of publications assigned to your Scopus Author ID, you will certainly help others finding your work. It will also improve completeness and correctness of citation analyses. And it also improves feeds of your publications list to be shown on other sites.
Go to Scopus and use the author search tab to search for your own name
Check if all publications assigned to you are correct and if there are no variants of your name that are not yet grouped to your main entry.
If there are ungrouped name variants with your publications send Scopus feedback by checking name variants and clicking “request to merge authors” on top of the results list. (For that it may be required to create a personal account within the institutional license).
Have a look at the list of Oxford Brookes University authors in Scopus (with and without Scopus ID)
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a very large (originally German) researcher community linking researchers around topics. It is frequently used to ask questions to colleagues all over the world that have the same set of interests and specialisations. You can choose which topics or researchers to follow. You can automatically populate your publications list or add items from reference management tools or add manually. You can even upload and share full text publications (e.g. last author versions that many publishers allow you to share).
Go to ResearchGate, sign up and complete your profile with whatever you think relevant.
Add your publications by clicking add publications” and choosing “author match”.
Select one or two topics to follow if you want
ResearchGate also has a public list of researchers that have joined ResearchGate
Full text publications uploaded to ResearchGate profiles are indexed by Google Scholar
Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a large researcher community. Just like ResearchGate it connects scholars around topics. You can add papers through a built in search using Microsoft Academic, PubMed and ArXiv. You can also add full text. The process is easy, but the coverage not as comprehensive as Google Scholar.
Go to Academia.edu and sign up.
Add publications/papers by clicking your name top right, then “add papers”and “import”
Find a few people in your field to follow
Full text publications uploaded to Academia profiles are indexed by Google Scholar
More about Academia.edu and FAQ
Mendeley
One of the steps towards visability and efficient reference management is a Mendeley account. Mendeley is an Elsevier‑owned reference management tool that is used by millions of researchers, offers immediate readership statistics and has strong social functions. Probably many of your publications are already present in the Mendeley database, but with your own account you can make sure that all of them are.
Complete your profile
Add publications
Start building a network of colleagues or (open or closed) groups
See the separate guide on reference management...
Social media exposure
Create a profile on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and start posting about your research activities, outputs, make your insights available to the public.
Try to engage with comments on news media.
Write blogs related to topical subjects, The conversation is a good place to go to, it has large outreach.
How to view your stats
Track buzz on Twitter, blogs, news outlets and more: we're like Google Scholar for your research's online reach. (you'd need to log in through your twitter account)
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