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Your Research Identity:

Identifiers and Profiles

Ruth Baker, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Georgia Southern University Libraries, Spring 2023

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OVERVIEW

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In this workshop, we will review some tools and techniques to help you distinguish your work from other researchers or scholars, and ways to enhance the promotion and dissemination of your work to others in your field.

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We will discuss creating a unique research or professional identity

in two parts:

• author identifiers
• online portfolios or profiles

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Objectives: Participants in the workshop will claim their ORCID ID or enhance an existing record (pt.1) ; and create a Google Scholar profile or enhance an existing profile (pt.2).

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Why Do you Need a Research Identity?

Essentially, it is:

• The way you project yourself to the world or in your profession; it gives you the ability to make your work stand out against that of others in your field, set your stage for growth, and help you advance your career path;
• Demonstrates your ability to be a team player collaborating with colleagues, serving as a responsible peer-reviewer, and participating in social media platforms to promote your research and writing;
• Note: it may take a period of several years to establish a reputation in your field leading to increasing professional activity and influence (such as invitations to speak at conferences or write articles) as result of your maturing professional identity; and
• Over time, your research identity constitutes your professional or scholarly reputation!

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Pt.1: CLAIM YOUR ORCID ID

What Is An ORCID ID?

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[To learn more about ORCID (the organization) and its mission and values, visit: https://info.orcid.org/what-is-orcid/ ]

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ORCID (https://orcid.org/ ), or Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier, provides a persistent digital identifier that you own and control. It serves to distinguish you from other researchers, especially those who share your surname, and you can connect your ORCID with your affiliations, grants, publications, peer reviews, and more. 

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You can share your ORCID information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

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Why Do You Need An ORCID ID ?

An ORCID ID helps you stand out from the crowd

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• You can connect your ORCID ID with your professional information -- affiliations, grants, publications, peer reviews, and more. 

• You can also use your ORCID ID to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

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Benefits

In addition to the benefit of being distinguished from every other researcher or scholar, you can enjoy these additional benefits:

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• Your research outputs and activities, contributions and affiliations will be reliably and easily connected to you
• You will save time when filling out forms (leaving more time for research!)
• You will enjoy improved discoverability and recognition

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• You will be able to connect your record to a growing number of institutions, funders, and publishers.

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Here Are The Steps

You can use your ORCID ID to distinguish yourself from others in 3 easy steps: 

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• 1-REGISTER 
• 2-USE 
• 3-SHARE 

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To begin, let’s go to the ORCID web site: http://orcid.org/register

Step 1: Claim Your ORCID ID and Register

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Enter your personal data: FN, LN (optional), and email address

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FN:  Justin

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LN:  Case

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Email: justincase@myuniv.edu

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Confirm email justincase@myuniv.edu

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Click Next.

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Security and Notifications

Security and Notification settings:

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• Create a password

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• Choose to receive email updates from ORCID (optional)
• Click Next

Visibility Settings

Set Visibility and Terms of Use:

• Public (Everyone)
• Trusted Organizations (see account settings)
• Private (visible only to you)

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The visibility of the information is entirely in your control!

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Agree to Terms of Use

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Click Register

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That’s It for Step 1!

Now you can begin to enhance your record with additional information:

• Employment History;
• Education;
• Distinctions;
• Professional Memberships and Service;
• Funding; and
• Works (Publications)
• Links to other platforms & keywords

In addition to your own record, you can view the public records of other researchers-take a look at this one: Jorge Hirsch (the creator of h-index)  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2170-9903 or here’s mine

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Step 2: Use Your ORCID ID

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• PUBLISHING: When prompted to, in systems and platforms from grant applications to manuscript submission and beyond, supply your ORCID ID to ensure you get credit for your contributions.

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• COMMUNICATIONS: include your ORCID ID  in all your professional communications, including your email signature

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Step 3: Share Your ORCID ID

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• ORCID ID Enabled Systems include: PlumAnalytics (which is integrated with Digital Commons/Selected Works), Clarivate (Endnote) Manuscript Matcher, and Mendeley Reference Manager.
• Digital Commons (the GS Institutional Repository) currently does not support automatic authentication of your ORCID ID data. However, Digital Commons allows for manual entry of ORCID ID in the Expert Gallery profile system [https://works.bepress.com/experts/georgia-southern-university/ ]
• [we will talk more about Digital Commons & Selected Works later on…]

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More info on using your ORCID ID:

• Info about ORCID: https://info.orcid.org/what-is-orcid/ 
• ORCID ID training videos: https://info.orcid.org/video-tutorials/ [see  For Researchers menu for FAQs and other resources.
• 6 Things to Do Now That You’ve Got an ORCID ID: https://info.orcid.org/six-things-to-do-now-youve-got-an-orcid-id/

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Other Identifiers

• Publons (2012- ) - (formerly ResearcherID in WoS; now from Clarivate) https://publons.com/about/home/
• Create a free profile, track articles, peer-review and editorial activity in journals - https://publons.com/in/researcher/ (your ResearchID is available for lookup once you have at least 1 publication listed in WoS)

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• Scopus Author Identifier https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri
• assigns a unique number to groups of documents written by the same author
• Note: GS does not currently subscribe to Scopus but you can still use you author ID on your online profiler and link it to your ORCID record

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Pt. 2: CREATE A GOOGLE SCHOLAR PROFILE

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Online Profiles

Pt. 2 of this workshop is designed for scholars or researchers who don’t yet have a Google Scholar profile but would like to create one. The good news is you can create a profile in just a few minutes!

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If you already have an existing profile, we will also discuss some ways to enhance your profile.

Why Create a Google Scholar Profile?��

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You may be wondering if you really need a profile. Here are some of the benefits:

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• Google Scholar provides an easy way of collating your publications, presentations or other works (and citations to them) so that others can find them-- and often find an accessible copy they can read. 

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• More than that, if you create a Google Scholar profile, your works will appear higher in Google search results!

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• But--even if you don’t have a well-established history of publications, that’s no problem! You can create a profile, entering works such as conference presentations or posters, and your research interests in 4 easy steps.

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So, let’s get started!

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Create Your Profile in 4 Easy Steps

Step 1: Go to http://scholar.google.com and click the ‘My Profile’ link at the upper left  of your screen 

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Step 2: Add Your Information

• If you don’t have a profile yet, you will be presented with this form. You should indicate:
• Your Affiliation (Georgia Southern University)
• Your email for verification (optional)
• Areas of interest in your research and/or teaching
• Homepage-if you have a Selected Works profile, you could use that URL or just enter the address for Georgia Southern for now

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• Click Next

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Step 3: Select Content To Add

• Google Scholar provides citations to articles from its search results that it thinks may be yours, based on your name.
• Don’t worry if you don’t recognize these ‘matches.’ You may find that you have a lot of ‘false drops’ which could result from publications in Google’s index by authors who share your last name.  Go ahead and import them (or at least one) and then you can delete the ones that you don't want to claim as yours
• Click the arrow in the upper right to continue

Step 4: Verify Article Updates and Visibility

Here are some options:

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Google Scholar automatically finds your new articles and changes to existing articles.

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You can opt to receive automatic updates or an email with updates for your review.

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Make your profile public (or uncheck the box if you want to remain private)

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Click Done.

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Congrats! You Did It!

That’s all there is to it!

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Now you can deselect articles you don't wish to claim as yours and enhance your profile in other ways.�

Your public Google Scholar Profile can highlight your:

• Publications
• Productivity over time
• H-Index and other metrics
• Links to Co-Authors

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To find a public Google Scholar profile, enter the person’s name and affiliation: here’s mine

Other Ideas to Enhance & Use Your Profile

Here are some suggestions:

• Edit your profile (click the pencil tool next to your name) to add content such as keywords and your personal website URL
• Add a photo and email address (optional);
• Add publications or presentations manually; even if you don’t have many publications to add, you can still add things like conference presentations and posters to your profile.

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Some other things you can do to enhance your Google Scholar profile:

• List collaborators or research partners who also have Google Scholar profiles;
• Get suggestions of related articles; and/or
• Search for other authors and follow them for updates on their publications.

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Expand Your Reach -- Repositories

Beyond traditional journal and monograph publishing and presentations at conferences, you can expand the reach and discoverability of your work by depositing articles and/or data in open access repositories and by creating an online portfolio.

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Georgia Southern’s Institutional Repository (Digital Commons) is an Open Access repository that collects, archives, and disseminates the intellectual and creative output of the University’s faculty, staff, students, and community partners.

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A related component of the IR is Selected Works, which provides data for the University’s Expertise Search and where you can create an online portfolio based on your C.V. Selected Works profiles are enhanced by PlumX analytics with traditional and altmetric data on usage.

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Remember! You can also add links to your Selected Works page to your ORCID record or your Google Scholar Profile.

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• If you’re interested in learning more about Selected Works Profiles, be sure to check out our upcoming workshops on the Faculty Center training page.

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Visit the Scholarly Communications guide for more information on OA directories & repositories.

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Other Platforms to Extend Your Reach

• SciENcv https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/ - create biosketches for federal grant submissions [to be required by NSF as of Oct. 2022]- visit the Faculty Center’s Training page for our forthcoming workshop in Late September 2022

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• ICPSR/OpenICPSR – deposit data (GS is a member institution)
• OpenICPSR Allows researchers to store and share social and behavioral science research data, preserved as-is and available to data users at no cost, up to a limit of 30GB per file and 1.000 files per deposit.
• Mendeley – share publication metadata and find collaborators, annotate PDFs, share peer-reviews
• http://mendeley.com and https://www.mendeley.com/guides/desktop/04-read-highlight-annotate
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/ [see our online tutorial https://bit.ly/3wMU2r2 (YouTube, 3:53)]
• Academia.edu or ResearchGate - use them cautiously!

Concluding Thoughts

None of the tools or strategies in this workshop operate in isolation. To build an effective Research Identity, best practices employ a variety of tools working in concert to improve the visibility and discoverability of your research or scholarship. You can use these tools to raise the profile of your:

• Traditional book and journal article publishing, including the use of ORCID IDs or other identifiers;
• Speaking engagements and conference presentations;
• Depositing articles and datasets in open access and other repositories;
• Sharing work online via sharing sites or through your online portfolios or websites; and
• Establishing an online presence through blogs, YouTube and other social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Sources for further reading and reflection

5 Top Social Media Dashboard Tools to Manage Your Social Accounts. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.jeffbullas.com/5-top-social-media-dashboard-tools-to-manage-your-social-accounts/

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Hoffman, Reid; Casnocha, B. (2012). The start-up of you : Adapt to the future, invest in yourself, and transform your career (1st ed.). New York: Crown Business.

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Jensen, D. (2017). Building your personal brand. Science Mag, 4–9. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.caredit.a1600130

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Lee, K. (2016). 5 Actionable Personal Branding Tips for Social Media. Retrieved from https://blog.bufferapp.com/social-media-strategy-personal-branding-tips

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Schaefer, M. W. (n.d.). KNOWN : the handbook for building and unleashing your personal brand in the digital age. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MUVMPQP/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Questions?

Ruth Baker rbaker@georgiasouthern.edu

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Georgia Southern University Libraries

See schedule of upcoming workshops on the Scholarly Communications Guide

or the Faculty Center Training page

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Slides available here: https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/scholcomm/profiles

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Also See Our ONLINE TUTORIALS

• Claim Your Orcid https://youtu.be/xsBypcaMqA0 (YouTube, 6:07); transcript
• Create A Google Scholar Profile https://youtu.be/PjWuKYiYEQY faculty Version (YouTube, 4:44); transcript
• Create a LinkedIn Profile LinkedIn https://bit.ly/3wMU2r2 (YouTube, 3:53); transcript