Your digital presence
Economic, societal and environmental impact, or the ‘non-academic’ impact of research, is becoming increasingly important to researchers. Part of this involves making the public aware of your area of expertise and your research publications, and whenever possible, making your publications available open access for the general public to read.
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Do you have an online presence?
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Have you tried doing an internet search on yourself?
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Do your share your research with the general public?
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How will people from an non-academic background know about you and your research?
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Have you made the allowable open access versions of your papers available on Research Online, ECU's Institutional Repository?
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Have you registered for an ORCID or other researcher identifiers to ensure your outputs are clearly associated with you as the author
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Do you maintain your researcher profiles regularly to ensure your research is being highlighted
OrcID
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ORCID Member OrganizationsORCID is a non-profit organization supported by a global community of >1057 member organizations worldwide. These include research organizations, publishers, funders, professional associations, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem.
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NHMRC and ARC Statement on Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC) encourage all researchers applying for funding to have an ORCID identifier.
Web of Science ResearcherID is now on Publons.
Publons is the new environment where you can benefit from the improved Web of Science ResearcherID, add your publications, track your citations, and manage your Web of Science record.
Log in with your usual Web of Science details to see your ResearcherID profile on Publons.
ResearcherID information integrates with the Web of Science and is ORCID compliant.
The ResearcherID profile profile comes with a variety of author metrics including the list of the author's publications (ones indexed by Web of Science or pulled in from ORCID), Total articles, times cited, average citations per article, co-authors, h-index etc.
Information About the Move to Publons:
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PublonsPublons is a website and free service where academics can track, verify and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions across the world's academic journals.
Publons is the only peer review acknowledgement system integrated with ORCID.
The Scopus author profile comes with a variety of author metrics including the list of the author's publications indexed by Scopus, total citations, total citations by documents, co-author counts, h-index, etc. The page also provides a Citation alert service (to follow a researcher), as well as the ability to add citations to ORCID (integrates and updates your ORCID iD) and Request author detail corrections (corrections and to merge IDs).
Scopus citation data is used in SciVal so it is essential that your Scopus Author ID is accurate.
Check your Scopus author ID:
- Use this link to check if your Scopus Author ID is correct (you will need to be logged into Scopus):
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Has it picked up all your Scopus indexed publications?
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Is the listing of publications correct - does it only include only your publications?
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Do you have multiple Scopus author IDs? - Use the Author Feedback Wizard to verify your Scopus Author Profile.
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Scopus to ORCID video: How to manage your author profile (video tutorial).
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Google Scholar Citations (Author Profile)Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. Profiles can be made private or public - public profiles appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
Have you been contacted by a journalist for comment? Or maybe seeking extra participants for your research? ECU’s partner, the Australian Science Media Centre, has developed a guide for researchers wanting to use the media or social media to raise their profile.
See Science Media Savvy for more information.
Promote your research:
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The ConversationThe Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. The Conservation's team of professional editors work with university and research institute experts to unlock their knowledge for use by the wider public.
Some Social Networking Sites
- academia.edu Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics
- Kudos Join a global community of researchers using Kudos to communicate work more effectively and accelerate its positive impact in the world.
- LinkedIn LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network with more than 645+ million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
- Mendeley Although Mendeley started off as a Reference Management tool, it now has an academic networking portal.