Bibliometrics & Responsible Use of Research Metrics: Researcher Profiles

The RMS (Research Management System) used in TUDublin is PURE. These Profiles allow researchers and academic staff to keep an up-to-date record of a Researcher Profile to demonstrate their research expertise and achievements. PURE is integrated with ORCID so linking your ORCID helps to cut down on the amount of admin required by the researcher as TU Dublin uses the ORCID integration within Pure to authenticate users and to push publication and affiliation data to ORCID records.
 

Google Scholar Citations is another platform for authors to track citations linked to their articles. Researchers have the choice to make their profile public or private. Google Scholar is an automated platform. Researchers can choose to have the list of articles associated with them to update automatically or they can opt to review the updates manually. To access your Google Scholar My Citations account you must have a google account. Then you can access Google Scholar My Citations on the Google Scholar page by clicking on the My Citations icon on the top right hand corner.

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a global, not-for-profit organization financed by fees from member organizations. ORCID is community-built and governed by a Board of Directors reflective of it’s membership with broad stakeholder representation.

It is free for individuals to sign up for their own ORCID account, Researchers with ORCID profiles get a free unique ID number that you keep throughout your career.

Benefits to having an ORCID:

• It is not tied to your current institution and can be used across professional activities, disciplines, nations & languages. This can prove to be really useful as a lot of people who work in academia move around institutions. 
• Free unique ID number for researchers
• Your ORCID number is a nice and simple way to keep track of your research outputs. 
• Having an ORCID can help eliminate name ambiguity & ensure proper attribution. This can be really useful when tracking bibliometric data also. 
• Helps ensure your work is discoverable and connected to you throughout your career

The Scopus database automatically generates an ID profile for authors to collect, monitor and link their publications. As this is an automated process duplicate accounts can occur for researchers. This may happen as a result of changing affiliations, name changes or simply because the corresponding author inputted the author information differently. For example a researcher named Jane Soap Doe could be recorded in the author information as Jane S Doe which might result in a second author profile being created and  your publications may be spread over a number of different author profiles. Do not worry if this happens to you it is very common and can be rectified. You can request that two author profiles be merged within Scopus, this will go for approval and then if found to be justified will be corrected usually within a couple of weeks. You can check your current Scopus author ID and publications by searching on Scopus using your name and current affiliation. It is important that each individual researcher is responsible for managing and maintaining their own author profiles as you are acutely aware of the work that you are doing and are responsible for ensuring proper attribution. You can manage your profile and check that the publications that are linked to you are correct and up to date using the Scopus to ORCID wizard which will link the publications recorded on your ORCID  with your Scopus author ID. This is recommended when adding multiple published articles to your ORCID record.