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Google Scholar Profile http://scholar.google.com
Academia.edu http://academia.edu
- ResearchGate.net http://researchgate.net
ORCID http://orcid.org
ResearcherID : http://www.researcherid.com/
Academia.edu http:/academia.edu- 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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Instructions for creating your Google Scholar Profile
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 Web of Science: 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
- Import citations 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:
- search and import citations from a number of different databases, including the MLA bibliography and Pubmed;
- mport citations exported from a citation manager in BibTex format, or
- add citations manually
ORCid and ResearcherID can be cross-connected so that new publications and references in one will update the other.
Scholarly Social Networks/Publication Clearinghouses
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- Researchers can post published material and unpublished drafts/presentations/other material
- Academia.edu does allow you to add citations when you have no file to upload, but it must be done by hand.
- Follow other researcher's publications
- Follow what specific researchers bookmark
- Add/link to co-authors
- Job Ads
- Participate in online conferences (forum/email discussions) either independent or in conjunction with standard cautions
ResearcherID & ORCid: International Standard 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 Web of Science: 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
- Import citations 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:
- search and import citations from a number of different databases, including the MLA bibliography and Pubmed;
- mport citations exported from a citation manager in BibTex format, or
- add citations manually
ORCid and ResearcherID can be cross-connected so that new publications and references in one will update the other.
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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