Publishing in a top-tier journal may be an aspirational goal. But there are many things you can do now to begin building and boosting your research profile. In general, you will want to ensure that your scholarly works are both valued and discoverable. Choosing good journals for your publications is a very important step. Here are a few more!
There are a number of researcher identification platforms out there. Most are designed to resolve any ambiguity problems, such as when an author has a common name, a name that gets mangled by various indexes, or changes their name through marriage, divorce, or other reason.
Whether you decide to use one or several may depend heavily on what your subject discipline is - IDs for researchers are used heavily in science and technology areas, for example. You may want to follow the norms and expectations of your own subject area. On the tabs of this tutorial are a few well-known author/researcher IDs.
ISU's Office of the Vice President for Research encourages ISU faculty to use ORCiD!
Benefits: Take control of collecting and presenting your works by establishing your unique ORCiD ID. This is particularly useful for those of us with common names or name variations. ORCiD will save the time of the researcher looking for your works PLUS make your works more discoverable.
ORCiD is a free and OPEN platform that is easy to use, plus it integrates well with other ID systems and databases, allows you to link your grant numbers and article DOIs, and more. Check it out!
Remember: participating in an open platform makes your work more discoverable by others.
When you set up a Google Scholar Profile, you can collect your articles and material listed in Google Scholar. Set your profile to be public so that searchers may benefit from seeing and accessing your entire list of works that are available via Scholar. Scholar also provides metrics such as number of times your articles have been cited, h-index, and more.
A Google Scholar Profile is free, OPEN, can help resolve ambiguity on author names (since you are the one collecting and organizing your own material). Scholar users benefit by discovering your profile, learning about your research, easily accessing and reading your articles.
Be aware that Scholar's citation metrics may include blog posts and other non-scholarly sources that have cited your articles, along with peer-reviewed articles. It's interesting to see who is citing you and how/where, but you'll probably want to compare Scholar metrics with other metrics, too.
Obviously, your Google Scholar Profile is pretty much limited to the Google Scholar platform and your works that appear in digital form via Scholar.
Social media, ORCiD, and alternative metrics are only a few options for highlighting the impact of your work in different ways. Learn more about this topic on our workshop guide linked below:
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