There are a growing number of profile systems designed to capture and display your publications and scholarly work.
ORCID has the greatest interoperability due to its widely adopted ORCID identifier, and its robust API in use by many publishers and funders to access and update publication data.
Some, like ResearcherID and Scopus Author Profile, are supported by specific publishers and tie in neatly with their associated products (i.e. Web of Science and Scopus). These tools generate a profile based broadly off of algorithmic prediction with the ability to claim and manually curate your page.
If you are looking to track your citation metrics and h-index, your options include ResearcherID (connected with Web of Science), Scopus Author Profile, and Google Scholar. Since these sources may index different journals, you may find that your citation counts are slightly different between platforms.
You likely don't have time to populate and curate all of these sources. Hopefully this page will offer a menu of options that will help you decide what will be the best use of your time and resources.
| Profile name | Governance | Identifier | Integrations/Interoperability | H-Index/citation data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCID | Non profit organization sustained by membership support and governed by a board of stakeholders. | Yes - ORCID ID | Many journal publishers include ORCID IDs with author data and feed updated publication data back to ORCID. SciENcv allows users to import papers from their ORCID profile. ResearcherID and Scopus Author Profile allows you to link to your ORCID profile. ORCID integrates with many open repositories and systems like Open Science Framework (OSF), bioRxiv, PubMed - and many more than we can list here. | No |
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ResearcherID |
Clarivate | Yes | Links to Web of Science and InCites records. If you use Publons to track peer review activitiy, you can link your ORCID id so that activity is reflected on your profile. | Yes |
| Scopus Author Profile | Elsevier | Yes | Links to Scopus records. Ties into Researcher Discovery tool (part of Scopus) which allows users to search for researchers by topic. | Yes |
| Google Scholar | No | Does not connect to other systems. Creates a profile page. | Yes | |
| Researchers@Brown | Brown University Library & Brown Office of Research | No | Profiles are associated with Brown University faculty. Most of the data is imported from Workday and Banner. Profile updates can be delegated. | No |
| MyNCBI - MyBibliography & SciENcv | National Library of Medicine (NLM) - NCBI | No | Publications are added to MyBibliography by PubMed search. Publications can be added to SciENcv from MyBibliography or ORCID. | No |
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