GUILLERMO AND MICHÈLE DE LA DEHESA LIBRARY CATALOG
WHY ARE RESEARCHER PROFILES IMPORTANT?
A researcher profile serves as a unique digital identity, enabling individuals in the research community to maintain a consistent and unmistakable identification via a unique code.
Researcher profiles allow for a standardized and direct connection to the researcher’s publications, funding and affiliations.
Researcher profiles can:
- Boost visibility -Allows researchers, students, funders, and journalists to easily find a researcher and their work.
- Increase impact – Increases the chances for research to be shared, read, cited, liked, and downloaded
- Ensure proper credit – Eliminates confusion over name variants and clearly links a researcher’s work to their profile.
- Track research metrics – Allows ease to monitor citations, h-index, and other impact indicators
- Build a researcher’s academic and professional network – A researcher profile allows them to connect and collaborate with other researchers
- Meet funder requirements – A public researcher profile has become a requirement for many funders.
Keeping a research profile updated with the latests publications, projects and achievements will provide support in evaluation and accreditation processes. The library can help you to clean your profiles.
As part of the library's research support service, we help you get the most out of your researcher profiles.
DIFFERENT RESEARCHER PROFILES
Some profiles require the researcher to register to set up an account, while others are generated within literature databases while allowing for manual management.
ORCID
Scopus Author Profile
Web of Science Researcher Profile
Google Scholar profile
ORCID
ORCID is a non-proprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors and contributors. It aims to classify authorship and facilitate name disambiguation. It’s free, open, and allows full coverage of the complete career besides the academic work (education, grants, professional experience, etc.).
An ORCID ID can also be integrated in research workflows such as manuscript and grant submissions, as well as supporting automated linkages between a researcher and their professional activities.
Your ORCID ID is always connected to an ORCID record, in which researchers can add employment details, education and qualifications, memberships, publications and grants or funding received. It is also possible to share data between the ORCID record and some funding and publication platforms.
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- What is ORCID? – Video
- Getting started with your ORCID record
- What your ORCID record can do for you – Video
- How to add works to your profile using an identifier (e.g. DOI)
- Import works from other platforms (such as Scopus or Web of Science)
- Import publications using a BibTeX file (e.g. from Google Scholar and Web of Science)
Scopus Author Profile
Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database of abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed publications, featuring bibliometric tools for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing research.
The Scopus Author Identifier is a unique 11-digit identifier that Scopus assigns to each author profile, grouping all publications written by the same author under a single identifier. This code allows Scopus to distinguish between authors with the same or similar names.
Bear in mind your author profile (Scopus Author ID) is created automatically as soon as a publication with your name is indexed in the database. In other words, you do not need to register to have an author profile on Scopus.
However, to make changes to your author profile, you do need to create an account on Scopus. Once you are registered in the database, you will be able to edit and manage the information that appears in your author profile and the publications associated with it, as well as choose your signature or update your affiliation, among other options.
In summary, an Scopus Author ID:
- Helps distinguish between authors who share common names
- Provides you with various metrics to help you understand the impact and dissemination of your work, such as citations received, H-index, co-authorship networks, etc.
- Allows you to make changes to your profile, such as choosing your signature, your affiliation, or selecting the publications that truly belong to you.
Scopus also allows you to connect your profile to your ORCID ID, which facilitate your works in Scopus to automatically appear in your ORCID record.
NOTICE: If you want to verify whether you already have a Scopus Author ID assigned to you and your work, login to Scopus via the Library E-Resources and Databases page and select the “Authors” tab. Afterwards, look up your own name using the search bar.
See the links below for help with Scopus Author ID and what to do if you need to make corrections to your profile.
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Web of Science Researcher Profile
Web of Science (WoS) is a research database and citation indexing platform managed by Clarivate Analytics. It offers access to a wide array of high-quality research articles, journals, conference proceedings, and patents across various disciplines.
Web of Science is a very useful tool for researchers because it allows them to measure the scientific quality and impact of research using built-in metrics and related tools such as the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
What is Web of Science ResearcherID? It is a unique identifier created by WoS to distinguish your researcher profile from others with similar names. A WoS researcher profile is easy to maintain and provides valuable insights into your publication and review history.
As with Scopus, Web of Science assigns automatically a ResearcherID to an author when one of their articles is indexed in the database. However, users can also create a ResearcherID manually or update an existing one already listed in WoS.
A WoS Researcher Profile allows you to:
- Track your publications and citation metrics.
- Handle editor work, peer reviews and conferences.
- List your funders.
- Export your Researcher Profile as a CV.
- Add peer reviews to your profile.
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Google Scholar profile
Your Google Scholar profile allows you to showcase your work and increase visibility to others in your field.
A Google Scholar profile allows you to:
- Group different citations of your articles.
- Check the number of citations of each article.
- Review the h-index of authorship.
- Check who has cited a publication.
- Export publications for your Google Scholar ID to ORCID.
A Google Scholar Profile provides an easy way for others to find your research and enables you to keep track of your publications and see the publications that cite your work.
Your list of publications can be updated automatically or be reviewed and manually updated. Co-authors can also be added to promote collaborations. Moreover, if a Google Scholar profile is set to ‘public’, it will appear in Google Scholar search results.
It is also possible to export publications from your Google Scholar Profile into your ORCID record using a BibTeX file (instructions here).
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In addition, it is highly recommended to link your ORCID ID to other platforms such as Scopus and Web of Science. This simple step will help prevent potential homonymy errors and give you greater international visibility as a researcher.
Furthermore, linking your profiles to one another allows for the bidirectional transfer of publication and citation data between the databases and your profile, saving you time on manual data entry.
AFFILIATION AND SIGNATURE STANDARDIZATION
The use of a consistent name and institutional affiliation in all your publications aids to improve the visibility, retrieval, and correct attribution of your research.
The lack of standardization in researchers’ scientific names in publications and their institutions can lead to:
- Decreases research visibility at national and international level.
- Publication retrieval difficulties.
- Citation retrieval difficulties.
These issues can affect both the accurate attribution of individual research and the representation of the University’s research output in bibliographic databases. Following a standardized approach to author names and affiliations can help prevent these inconsistencies
Recommended practice
- Be consistent with your author name/signature and affiliation, always using the same ones.
- Consistency across platforms increases the visibility and reach of our work.
- The university’s presence in these databases will also appear more cohesive and consistent
- Always ensure that you are using the correct affiliation. The correct name should be “IE University”, although Scopus also contemplates “IE Universidad”
- Keep your ORCID iD and researcher profiles updated and linked to your publications.
The Library can help you
We provide personalized support for any researcher. You can contact us anytime.
We can also take direct action in Scopus and Web of Science. We are able to:
- Request merges of duplicate profiles in Scopus and WoS.
- Correct errors in both databases profiles.
- Update affiliations.
- Help verify or restructure identities.
Repository Assistance.
- Deposit, link and preserve your research.
Research Impact Roadmap
IMPORTANT
Remember that keeping a consistent, standardized author signature and affiliation is crucial for your visibility.
A proper creation and curation of your researcher profiles will ensure the visibility, retrieval, and correct attribution of your research.
NARRATIVE CV
Narrative bibliometrics is an evaluation tool that allows the use of bibliometric indicators to generate stories and narratives that allow the defense and exposition of a scientific curriculum and/or its individual contributions within the framework of the new evaluation policies promoted by CoARA.
- It is a selective and summarized presentation of the essential features of someone’s scientific and academic career, which is presented and recounted in the first person.
- It focuses on the main achievements, those that give consistency, context and meaning to the researcher’s work and make the most meritorious contribution to the scientific community and to society.
- The presentation should highlight precisely what differentiates and distinguishes the person from other researchers.
- It is not limited to articles, but may include participation in working groups, mentoring and creation of research teams, contribution to reports or white papers, organisation of events, presentations and conferences, development of tools and techniques, patents and intellectual property registrations, transfer of knowledge to companies, organisations or social groups, dissemination among professionals in new techniques and technologies, software development, dissemination of datasets, artistic achievements, etc.
- It allows contributions to be placed and compared in a broader context.
IE Library Training
Here are some past training sessions from the IE University Library designed to help you create, link and manage your Researcher profiles:
Remember that you can check past IE Library training sessions, including those about your researcher profile here! We also provide a calendar of upcoming sessions.