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Having a Google Scholar profile allows others interested in your work to easily identify your other publications; it also allows them to easily find your contact information, or even be notified when you publish something new. It also allows you to view and track the number of times your work is cited, and who has cited your work, and where. Last but not least, it allows you to differentiate yourself from other authors with similar names.

The Instructions for creating your Google Scholar Profile is the easiest for Drew Faculty to create, as we already have a linked Google Account. (In order to create a profile, you should have at least one publication that comes up under your name in Google Scholar.)

• While logged in to your email, go to Google Scholar: scholar.google.com
• Click on "My Citations" in the upper right. (If you don't see "My Citations" you may not be logged in.)
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  Or you can also go to this link: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en.
• Google will ask you to fill out basic profile information-- be sure to list Drew in your affilitation!
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• Google Scholar will then display a list of articles it suspects may be yours.
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  You'll click the Add Article buttons for the ones that are yours.
• Once you've done that, and proceeded to the next screen, you'll see this:
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• Google may prefer that you automatically update your profile, but we recommend, at least at first, that you Don't automatically update it-- have it send you email and you can verify your citations from there. Click Go to my Profile to finish.
• Now that your Profile exists, you'll need to decide whether to make it public. It's really more useful to others and better publicity for Drew if you do, but you can always choose to not do so, or to delete it entirely. The message will come up at the top of the screen.
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ResearcherID & ORCid

Scholarly Social Networks/Publication Clearinghouses

ResearchGate.net

ResearcherID & ORCid: Scholar identifiers

Google Scholar Profiles have several purposes, but ResearcherID and ORCid have only one: to group your publications together by uniquely identifying you. These deal almost exclusively with the bibliographic metadata-- the citation- for your publications, not the full text.

ResearcherID is associated with the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index databases. If you've ever tried to do a cited reference search, you can understand why grouping together different formations of the citation for your work would be invaluable. ResearcherID accounts assign you a particular unique number which identifies you in those databases as the author of specific papers or citations. ResearcherID allows you to import citations from the Citation Indexes and other databases we get through the same interface, and also from EndnoteWeb.  This tool is most suitable for those who publish in name science journals.

ORCid is a similar unique ID scheme for authors, but it is not coming out of a particular publisher, instead being a registry run by a non-profit organization for that purpose. Just as an ISBN identifies a particular book and a DOI identifies a particular article, an ORCid is supposed to identify a specific author. Publishers are increasingly incorporating author's ORCid numbers into the author information in journal articles, so you may be asked to supply an ORCid when your work is published.  ORCid allows you to import citations from a number of different databases, including the MLA bibliography.

ORCid and ResearcherID can be cross-connected so that new publications and references in one will update the other.

Scholarly Social Networks/Publication Clearinghouses

For those who wish to either post their publications/conference papers/slides/etc. or engage in online conversation with other scholars, there is an additional set of communities. Both ResearchGate.net and Academia.edu allow you to post your materials and designate either open or gated access to each. They also allow you to follow other researchers, and in some cases engage in scholarly forums with them.

ResearchGate.net

ResearchGate is the more formal of the two; its signup process, for instance, asks users to identify what kind of researcher they are.

Academia.edu

Students and the general public, as well as researchers, can obtain accounts on Academia.edu; a (free) account is required to download material that authors have hosted on Academia.edu

Notes and Cautions

Bear in mind that all these services are created by for-profit organizations. That doesn't give them the rights to your copyrighted work, but it does allow them to use citations and metrics for their business model.

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