As you begin to publish, scholarly profiling tools like Google Scholar, Scopus, and more automatically indexes published works under author's names. An analyses of scholarly profiles across multiple services "revealed that each of these services covered less than 50% of the authors’ publication activity" (Gasparyan et al., 2017, p.1753). Not only can managing your author profile through these services give you control over how your scholarly identity is presented but can also:
Not all scholarly profile tools will have all the features mentioned above, which is why it may be necessary to manage to your scholarly identity across multiple tools to maintain a complete portfolio.
Some scholarly profile tools can be complimentary. It can benefit a researcher to combine multiple platforms to manage their digital scholarly identity.
Website |
URL |
Main function |
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ResearcherID |
Issuing unique identifiers for authors |
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Google |
Aggregating links to publications visible on Google, tracking citations, navigating to co-authors' profiles |
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ORCID |
Issuing unique identifiers for author and contributor name disambiguation |
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Kudos |
Sharing publications, explaining their importance, measuring their citation-based and alternative impact, and managing scholarly reputation |
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ScienceOpen |
Scholarly social networking, gold open-access publishing, and post-publication peer review |
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Publons |
Crediting peer review and editorial contributions |
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arXiv |
Repository of electronic preprints |
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Ideas |
A service of the Research Paper in Economics (RePEc) database for creating profiles and sharing links to articles |
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ResearchGate |
Scholarly social networking, discussing and sharing publications |
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Academia.edu |
Scholarly social networking, discussing and sharing publications |
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Mendeley |
Reference management |
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Zotero |
Reference management |
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Wikipedia |
Showcasing achievements and awards of eminent scholars |
Chart adapted from: Gasparyan, A. Y., Nurmashev, B., Yessirkepov, M., Endovitskiy, D. A., Voronov, A. A., & Kitas, G. D. (2017). Researcher and author profiles: Opportunities, advantages, and limitations. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 32(11), 1749. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1749