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Citations, Altmetrics and Researcher Profiles

A guide to the key tools for measuring and describing your research performance, as well as setting up and managing your research profiles

Researcher profiles

Well managed researcher profiles enable you to effectively track engagement with your research outputs and some enable you to benchmark your performance against other researchers.

Importantly, they also:

  • Showcase your research to the world
  • Manage your publications list
  • Increase your visibility to potential collaborators and grant assessors
  • Prevent misidentification
  • Enable your research output to be attributed to UWA

This guide introduces the researcher profiles that UWA authors should consider setting up and managing. At a minimum, ensure that your UWA Profiles and Research Repository profile is up to date and link it to your ORCiD if you have one, or create and then link an ORCiD from your UWA Repository Profile. See full instructions to link your ORCID to the UWA Repository.

Important profiles

 

Profiles in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository are the sole, authorised public profiles for UWA staff. They enable access to comprehensive and up to date information about research, teaching activities, professional expertise and outputs.

The UWA Research Integrity Policy requires UWA researchers to include their ORCID iD in their publications and to link it to their UWA profile.

  • A profile has been established for all UWA research and teaching staff.
  • Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students enrolled with the Graduate Research School are also eligible to have a profile. HDR students must have an ORCID iD to be eligible and can request a profile by emailing help-repository@uwa.edu.au.
  • Any UWA academic or professional staff member who does not have a profile in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository can request one by emailing help-repository@uwa.edu.au. 

See the UWA Profiles and Research Repository guide for guidance on setting up your profile, adding publications and other content, as well as FAQS. 

 

ORCID logo   What is ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) provides you with a free globally unique identifier that can be used throughout your scholarly career. In an international research environment, your ORCID iD distinguishes your research output from all other researchers to ensure consistent, reliable attribution of your work and accurate measurement of your research impact.

You should register for an ORCID iD to get a unique, persistent identifier and a profile page which can include your list of publications.

Quoting your iD when publishing a paper, releasing a dataset or applying for funding will:

  • Help ensure all your research outputs are linked to your name and name variations.
  • Allow the UWA Profiles and Research Repository to find and match your research outputs more efficiently, saving you time.

ORCID® iDs are increasingly being required by:

  • Journal publishers
  • Funding bodies and
  • University repositories

Note: ORCID does not track citations and your ORCID profile will not include citation counts.

Connect your ORCID iD to your UWA Profile

The UWA Research Integrity Policy requires authors to include their ORCID iD in publications and to ensure that it is linked to their profile in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository.

Check whether you already have an ORCID iD before you register for one to avoid creating a duplicate profile. Try searching for your name on the ORCID website. If your name appears, try logging in using your current or previous email addresses. You may need to use the Forgotten password option.

Your ORCID iD also links publications in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, which can be highly beneficial for author disambiguation and the calculation of research metrics.

Once your UWA Repository profile is linked to your ORCID iD, your ORCID profile will be automatically updated from the Repository each Sunday, or you can "push" details through to your ORCID iD at any time. You only need to keep your UWA Repository profile up to date.

How can I use my ORCID® iD most effectively?

  • Associate your ORCID® iD with all your name variations to ensure all of your research work is attributed to you.
  • Link your ORCID® iD to your profile in the UWA Profiles and Research Repository. 
  • Connect your ORCID® iD with other identifiers such as Researcher ID and Scopus Author ID to make it easier for others to find your research output
  • Quote your ORCID® iD when submitting a manuscript. 
  • Include your ORCID® iD in funding submissions and grant applications. ARC and NHMRC encourage all researchers applying for funding to cite their ORCID®.
  • Put your ORCID® iD on your webpage, CV, email signature, conference presentations and in social media.
  • You can also link multiple institutional or other accounts to your ORCID® account. Once linked, any of these may be used to access your ORCID® record. To link multiple accounts, repeat the linking procedure for each additional account. You can view the accounts that you have linked to your ORCID® record in your ORCID® account settings.
  • Build a complete picture of your research activities in your ORCID profile by adding information including grants, datasets, peer review activities, websites, and links to other person identifiers. 

The ORCID support site provides guidance on building the other aspects of your ORCID record. 

Scopus

Scopus Author Identifier

The Scopus Author Identifier assigns a unique number to each author in the Scopus database and groups together all their publications in a profile. It automatically calculates citation counts and the h-index.

If you have published in a journal that is indexed in Scopus, a Scopus Author Identifier and profile would have been automatically generated for you. See the instructions below for finding and verifying your profile. 

Sometimes multiple Scopus Author ID's can be generated, especially if your name, institution or field of research has changed. See instructions below for merging profiles. 

Having your Scopus Author Identifier set up with all of your publications correctly attributed to you in Scopus is essential for measuring your research performance via SciVal.

Verify your Scopus profile to control your identity within the platform and ensure your publications are linked to you. Follow the steps below to verify your profile:

1. Access Scopus via OneSearch

2. Conduct an Authors search to find your profile. If you appear to have multiple profiles, see the merge profiles instructions below.

3. Find yourself in the result list and click your name to open your profile.

4. Select Edit profile.

5. Check your details, including your preferred name and current organisation. Check whether any papers are incorrectly attributed to you and use the Remove from profile link if needed.

6. It is also worth checking if any of your publications have been attributed to another researcher of a similar name. Note that if an author has publications that do not appear on their Scopus Author Profile, this may be because the publications are not indexed in Scopus. Conduct a document search to determine if the publication is indexed. If any corrections are required, use the Author Feedback Wizard to send a request.

Requests are usually processed within 1-3 weeks.

If Scopus has automatically generated multiple profiles for you, you can request they be merged:

1. Access Scopus via OneSearch

2. Conduct an Authors search to bring up your potential profiles

3. Select the profiles you want to merge on the left-hand side, then click on Request to merge authors in the top menu and work through the steps to submit the request.

4. Work through the following steps to submit the request.

Requests are usually processed within 1-3 weeks.

Researcher ID        

The Web of Science ResearcherID provides a unique identifier that connects you and your publications across the Clarivate Analytics group of products, including Web of Science, Web of Science Researcher Profiles (previously Publons) and Incites (Benchmarking and Analytics). Citation metrics such as number of times cited and h-index are automatically calculated using data from Web of Science.

Create and maintain your Web of Science ResearcherID through Web of Science Researcher Profiles, where you can also record peer review and journal editing work. See the Claim your Web of Science profile and Merge Web of Science profiles tabs here for instructions, or read more about your Web of Science Researcher Profile at the Clarivate website. Web of Science Researcher Profiles are used in the identification of Highly Cited Researchers and ranking exercises so it is important to keep this profile as accurate as possible.

These instructions are intended for authors who have already claimed their Web of Science profile, but additional algorithmically-generated profiles have subsequently been created by Web of Science. You can tell if your profile is claimed as it will have a green tick next to your name.

1. Access Web of Science via OneSearch

2. Login to your personal Web of Science account by clicking on the Sign In button at the top right of the screen.

3. Click on the Researchers tab of the main search box.

4. Enter your last and first names in the appropriate boxes and click on Search.

5. This is an example of a claimed profile (green tick) and a subsequent algorithmically-generated duplicate profile with new publications in it. Click on the claimed profile.

6. Because you are logged into Web of Science with your account, you will see a +Manage icon above the publications list in your claimed profile. Click on this Manage icon.

7. On the My Publications Record page, click on Add Publications

8. At the top of the new Add publications to your profile screen you should see a link to view publications which may be yours - these are usually those assigned to the duplicate profile. Click on View my publications to view and add relevant publications to your claimed profile.

9. Select the relevant publications from the list presented, if all of them are yours you can check the box in the top/bottom grey box to select all. Then click Submit in the green box at the bottom of the page.

10. It will take time for Web of Science to process these changes. The publications you have selected will be added to your claimed profile within three days, however it might take several weeks for them to be removed from the duplicate profile(s) and for the duplicate profile(s) to be removed entirely. You can also use the other options on the Add My Publications screen (step 8) to add additional publications that Web of Science has not identified as yours, e.g. search by DOI or Title.

Claim your Web of Science Researcher Profile to control your identity within the platform and ensure your publications are linked to you. This is also important for researcher ranking exercises such as the Highly Cited list. Follow the steps below to claim your profile:

1. Access Web of Science via OneSearch

2. Login to Web of Science by clicking on the Sign In button at the top right of the screen, or Register for an account. If you have ever used InCites or EndNote Online this will be the same account credentials.

3. Click on the Researchers tab of the main search box.

4. Enter your last and first names in the appropriate boxes and hit Search.

5. You will either see a list of profiles for people with your name/similar names, or if your name is unique you may be presented with a single algorithmically generated profile. If a list is presented and one of these is clearly yours, click on the name to enter the profile. If there a number of profiles in the list which appear to contain your work, click on the profile with the most publications in it. 

6. Once in the profile, click on the Claim my record icon on the right hand side of the screen. Don't worry if all the publications are not yours or if you are missing publications at this stage, this will be corrected in the next step.

7. You will be presented with the screen below welcoming to your Web of Science profile. Click Continue.

8. You will be presented with a list of publications that Web of Science has identified, select those that are yours and then click the Submit box in the green bar at the bottom of the page.

9. You will then be returned to the initial profile page and will not see any immediate changes. Web of Science will take approximately 3 days to process any updates to publications in your profile. 

10. To check your profile has been claimed, and to add any more publications to your profile which may be missing, click on the Researcher Profile icon in the black bar on the left of the screen. 

11. You should see a green tick next to your name indicating a claimed profile and the relevant number of publications you selected displaying here. Use the +Manage icon next to your documents to make further changes to your publications. Publications can be added through being 'suggested' by Web of Science or by an identifier such as DOI or PubMed ID. Note that not all publications are indexed in Web of Science however you can add non-indexed publications by file upload should you wish.

Google Scholar Profile

A Google Scholar profile will provide you with the Google Scholar citation count for each of your publications and your Google Scholar h-index. Profiles can be private or public. We strongly recommend that you check and edit your profile regularly to ensure accuracy.

Set up your Google Scholar Profile

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