Why is it important to have a good online presence as a researcher?
By creating a researcher profile, you will be able:
- To promote your research and teaching activities
- To improve your chance of being cited
- To ensure correct attribution
- To guarantee credit in research assessments
- To find new collaborators
- To find new funding sources
In this way you will make your research more visible and optimise the impact of your research.
How do you make your research more visible to other researchers? Five tips on what you should do in detail:
- Build your NTNU Staff Profile and add your
- Research priority areas
- Teaching
- Awards
- Supervision
- Social media profiles
- Build your ORCiD Profile
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognised. ORCID iDs can only be assigned by the ORCID Registry at https://orcid.org.
- Create additional researcher profiles and establish a
- Google Scholar Profile to collate your publications: https://scholar.google.com.au/intl/en/scholar/citations.html#overview
- ResearcherID if you have publications in Web of Science: www.researcherid.com/
- Scopus ID if you have publications in Scopus: if you have a paper indexed in the Scopus database, you are automatically assigned a Scopus Author ID. Use the free lookup tool to find your Scopus Author ID.
- Use networking tools and connect with other researchers via:
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/
- Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/
- ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/
- Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/
- Use social media
Boost your career with social media. If you are new, follow a successful researcher. Promote your work and the work of your colleagues by using:
- Twitter – the most popular micro-blogging tool
- YouTube – the most commonly used video platform
- Blogging – create interest in your work
Overview over the key tools
- University profiles: NTNU staff profiles
- Author disambiguation: ORCID, ResearcherID
- Search engines: Google Scholar, Scopus
- Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs
- Communities: Academia.edu, ResearchGate
- Reference sharing: Mendeley
The web site https://www.piirus.ac.uk/ has developed a so-called “Digital Identity Health Check for Academics”. Among others, this document includes “Ten simple tips to improve the visibility of you and your research”.
Here you have the recommended strategies:
- Create profiles on sites that rank highly in search results
- Manage your name by getting an ORCiD identifier
- Make your web addresses easy to find
- Create a single home for your online presence
- Link your online profiles together
- Write guest posts on other people’s blogs to gain more visibility
- Decide if you will have a personal and/or professional digital presence
- Use appropriate images online
- Maximise the potential of your profile biographies to make better connections
- Measure your research impact online
Here you will find the whole document: https://www.piirus.ac.uk/resources/documents/digital-identity-health-check-for-academics.pdf
One reply on “Create your researcher profile and make your research more visible”
Thanks for sharing research steps. All the steps are clearly defined and accurate. Great post.