LibGuides: Research Impact and Visibility: Broadening your impact

Researcher profiles

There are a number of ways one can increase research visibility and impact:

These academic profile platforms have an added advantage of openness and to enhance research visibility and impact.
Scopus and Web of Science are global bibliometrics data sources, search platforms, abstract and citation analysis tools widely used in the THES and QS rankings. The NWU community have access to both Scopus and Web of Science through library subscription
By registering for an author identifier such as ORCiD to collect your body of research outputs under a consistent access point that will make it easier for others to identify your work and to use your research
Register for an ORCID account and import publications from Scopus
Set up and create a Google Scholar Profile
Register and create a Researcher ID on Publons and Scopus Author Identifier
Create researcher profile using NWU Research Data Repository (Dayta Ya Rona), find notes on how to create a research profile on Figshare and share data openly.
By using social research networks, e.g. LinkedIn, Research gate, Mendeley, Academia.edu, Blog, Research blogging, Tweet, Learn more about metrics in this video
Use Kudos, a free platform for researchers to tell what your research is all about. Watch this video for introduction and follow few steps to connect and add publications using ORCID.

How to create a researcher profile account?

Just follow the easy steps in each of these listed researcher profile tools or navigate using the tabs or pages from the top menu:

Open Researcher and Contributor iD

A tool that offers a solution to the author name and misidentification by providing a persistent unique iD’s for researchers.

Benefits of having an ORCID iD

Avoid misidentification
Facilitate interoperable exchange of information – integrates with numerous bibliographic databases, platforms, profiling tools, manuscript submission systems, funders grant workflows, research repositories
iD is linked to all research activities
Scholarly work is discovered
Identification by potential collaborators
Sharing of iD with others
Another added benefit is the ORCID advancement has been integrated with numerous systems
More benefits for researchers
Short video on ORCID

ORCID

How to create an ORCID account?

Step 1: ORCID account

Create an ORCID account
Add additional names under "also known as"
Add and link websites and social links – this allow researcher to add and link to social media pages like personal websites, Google Scholar, Figshare, ResearchGate, Linkedin, Academia.edu and more
Add emails and make them visible to the public
Short videos on how to: Register for your ORCID , Edit your name on ORCID
Register for an ORCID account

Step 2: Add personal information

Add biography
Add affiliation (i.e. employer)
Add academic credentials like education, qualifications, achievements
Add funding information
Add membership or service association
A short video oh how to add personal information

Step 3: Add works or publications into your ORCID

Add works or publications from Scopus to ORCID

Use search and link wizard
Publications can be pulled from a number of databases like Crossref, DataCite, Scopus/Elsevier and more
Connect ORCID account with Scopus account and import publications from Scopus to ORCID.
Here is How to add publications from Scopus into ORCID
Notes from the guide provide illustrative examples on how to add publications from Scopus

Add works or publications from Google Scholar to ORCID

Follow the steps in this Guide
Please note the file downloaded from Google Scholar will be listed under downloads

How to add works or publications manually?

Follow the easy steps in this guide

Step 4: Reset ORCID password, update ORCID records and delete duplicate ORCID iD

Few steps to reset your password
Watch this short video on how to update your ORCID record
Link and authorize CrossRef to automatically update ORCID account
Steps to remove or delete duplicate ORCID iD's.

Step 5: Add ORCID iD icon and link to your email signature

Sign in on ORCID, scroll to Display formats and copy the full green ORCID circle icon, Example:
Right-click and copy the ORCID icon and paste it into your email signature
Copy the ORCID URL and paste it next to the icon
Click save changes

How to Create Google Scholar Profile

Is widely used by scientists as it tracks and provide citations and metrics. Researchers affiliated with North-West University have created Google Scholar Profiles. Google scholar profile is useful in preserving and enhancing global visibility of research output of postgraduate students, early career researchers, eminent and even deceased scholars. Below are the steps to create Google Scholar Profile account

Step 1: Create an account

If you have a Gmail account this becomes fairly easy
Log on to scholar.google.com and click on my profile in the top menu and setup the account
Add personal details like name, affiliation, email, subject keywords relevant to your field of research, add university web link,
Select automatic update for latest articles to be added into your profile
Make your profile public

Step 2: Add publications

Articles get listed immediately after completing step 1
To add more publications into your profile click the + sign and select "add articles"
Search and add publications using different options like, names, publication titles, keywords
In the search result list use the check box on the left and in the top menu to select and add publications into your profile

Step 3: Watch the video on how to create a Google Scholar Profile

Step 4: Congratulations!

Now that you have created an account you should be able to see:
- Number of citations from your papers
- h-index
- Co-authors, if not listed edit and add co-authors

Step 5: Clean up your Google Scholar Profile account

Edit publication details like journal titles, article titles, book and chapter titles, authors, date, volume, issues, pagination
Delete or merge duplicates so that you don't lose citations

Browse through existing Google Scholar Profiles

Scopus Author Identifier

This 11th digit Author identifier is assigned automatically to authors who publish with Elsevier
Through Scopus Author Identifier authors can view their research areas, track peer reviewed work, publishing and citation information (learn more about Scopus citations and other types of metrics), name variations, affiliation and more
View your own citations and h-index using author feedback wizard and learn more about Scopus citations and how h-index is calculated and other types of metrics
Scopus ID distinguishes authors with similar names and makes it easy to identify multiple profiles
Authors can merge multiple profiles
Connect ORCID through Scopus Author Identifier

How to create and connect Scopus Author Identifier?

Perform author search on Scopus
Enter last surname only to retrieve as many name variants and multiple profiles as possible. Alternatively search by last name and affiliation
Send Scopus publications to ORCID
This author video tutorial provide clear guidance what and how to update Scopus Author ID
More about Scopus Author Identifier browse Scopus: Profile and content corrections Support Center
See also notes on Scopus, h-index, Citations, Metrics, and Author Profiles

Publons, previously Web of Science ResearcherID

Web of Science ResearcherID is now on Publons
Publons track publications, citation information, peer reviews and journal editing work into a profile
Publications are immediately imported from Web of Science through ORCID, or bibliographic reference manager like EndNote or Mendeley

How to create a Publons Profile? watch this video:

Get started and register for a free Publons profile
Duplicate profiles can be deleted with few steps listed on this page

Browse through existing profiles

North-West University Publon profiles
North-West University Researchers with Publon ResearcherID profiles