Build a Research Profile
Why build an online research profile?
- The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The ultimate guide to raising the profile of your research by Stacy Konkiel
- Includes detailed information about how to set up accounts and maximize visibility
- Utrecht University Library, Research Impact and Visibility: Researcher profiles
- Provides basic information about many different sites with a handy comparison table
- Montana State University Library, Researcher Profiles: Home
- Provides basic information about many different sites
What online references will you include in your online research profile?
Consider what each site presents to make your choices.
- Profile
- Publications list
- Social media links
LinkedIn, Building a Great Student Profile: Provides basic information and suggestions
LinkedIn, How to create a killer LinkedIn profile that will get you noticed by Bernard Marr: Provides additional advice beyond creating a basic profile
Forbes, How to create the ideal LinkedIn profile by Laura Shin: Provides additional advice beyond creating a basic profile
Google Scholar*
- Profile (Basic)
- Publications list
- Publications metrics
- Auto track new papers and citations
SlideShare, The Google Scholar Profile by Sarah Goodier: Tutorial about setting up and using citation features
Research Gate*
- Profile
- Publications list
- Publications linked
- Publications metrics
- Social media Links
- Uploading papers
ResearchGate: Professional network for scientists: Basic information about setting up a profile and utilizing additional site features
University of Twente Library, Research Gate: Information about settings and details regarding uploading journal articles
Forbes, ResearchGate wants to be Facebook for Scientists by Alex Knapp: Part overview, part opinion piece
Researcher ID*
- Profile
- Publications list
- Publications linked
- Publications metrics
- Linked to other sites (ORCID)
University of Queensland Australia Library, Research Output and Impact fact sheets: Why set up a Researcher ID?: Overview about the site and potential benefits of having an account
ORCID*
- Profile
- Publications list
- Publications linked
- Linked to other sites (Researcher ID, Scopus ID)
Impactstory blog, Ten things you need to know about ORCID right now: Overview about the site and potential benefits of having an account
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Identifiers: ORCID @ CMU: Great FAQ section
*bulleted items adapted from Utrecht University Library
Other sites that may be of interest
- Academia.edu: social network, upload/share papers, find publication metrics, upload draft papers, and invite colleagues to leave feedback
- Mendeley: reference manager (can be linked on multiple devices), social network
- An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists
- The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication
- The value and use of social media as communication tool in the plant sciences
- The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists. Satirical but interesting.
- Mark Sarvary’s Cornell Integrative Biology Lab