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Why?
Why would a researcher (faculty, graduate student-- anyone who has published papers) want to use one or more of these profile services? Any or all of these reasons:
Identify/Claim your own publications
Increase discoverability and visibility of your works
Manage your publications list
Track citations to your work
Funnel contacts from students and researchers
Fulfill publisher and grant requirements
Manage preprint requests
Share papers, presentations, and additional data
Participate in the open access movement
Reflect well on Drew
What?
Among the scholarly profile services/scholarly networking services are:
Google Scholar Profile http://scholar.google.com
ORCID http://orcid.org
ResearcherID : http://www.researcherid.com/
- ResearchGate.net http://researchgate.net
Google Scholar Profile
You probably already use Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). You'll notice that sometimes, when you look up an author's name, you'll find a special entry at the top, like this:
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