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Research Impact at Purdue

A research guide on the ways to best practices for managing your online academic identity

Researcher Identity is an important, if not often misunderstood aspect of academic identity. It is important to take charge of your online presence, and craft a profile of your academic work that best captures your aims, goals, and needs. By doing so it allows you to track the impact of your work, manage collaborations, and to increase the visibility of your work over time.

 

Some pieces of Research Identity are...

  • Your name as it appears on publication
  • Your profiles in databases
  • Your institutional affiliations
  • Your collaborations
  • Your media presence from publications

 

Managing Your Researcher Identity

As a researcher it is important that you manage your online research portfolio. But why should you do this? The answer is that this process will provide numerous benefits, but some of the most important are...

  • Distinguishing your name from others with the same name
  • Increased discoverability of your work
  • Correct accreditation to both Purdue and yourself of your work
  • Place all of your works in one place
  • Control your own research data and workflow
  • Push your research to Elements automatically

 

Key Steps

1. Create and ORCiD ID, for more detailed instructions see the page on this libguide about ORCiD

2. Sync and manage online profiles in Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science

3. Manage your profiles, keep them up to date and add to them when necessary