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Researcher IDs and Profiles

This guide provides instructions how to create researcher profiles on various platforms and link them together.

Step 1 - Create your Google Scholar Profile

  1. Go to Google Scholar.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account (if you are not already signed in) or create a Google account if you do not have one.
  3. Click on My Profile in the top left corner.
  4. Add your Name and all its variations.
  5. Add your latest affiliation and email (one that you can still access so that you can complete the verification).
  6. Add main keywords for topics of research.
  7. Add your ORCID iD as your homepage .

Step 2 - Articles/Publications

The second step in creating your profile will prompt you to select your articles from a generated list to add them to your profile.

Select your articles and continue .

Google Scholar will not allow you to create your profile unless you have at least one publication. If you do not yet have one, select any article during the process so that you can complete your profile, and then delete it once your profile is created.

You may also add articles later manually or have them added automatically:

Manually

  1. Go to My Profile.
  2. Click on the + icon.
  3. Select:
    • Add article groups to add articles in bulk (if you have a large number of articles).
    • Add articles to select a few citations.
    • Add articles manually to add individual citations manually.

 

Automatically

  1. Go to My Profile.
  2. Click on the + icon.
  3. Select Configure article updates.

Step 3 - Settings

  1. Article updates
    • To have articles added automatically to your Google Scholar profile, select Apply updates automatically. It is recommended if your name is unique.
    • If your name is common, select Email me updates for review so you can ensure you are adding the right documents to your Google Scholar profile and avoid incorrect publications from being added automatically to your profile.
  2. Profile visibility
    • select Public so your profile can be found and your articles have higher visibility.
  3. Follow by Email (Optional - Personal Preference).

Metrics

Google Scholar Profile provides the following metrics: h-index, h-median and h-core (of the articles that were published in the last five complete calendar years). More information about each metric can be found here.

Keep in mind the following:

  • Google Scholar does not index all scholarly articles; therefore, some articles citing the item under study may not be counted.
  • Google Scholar includes citations from an array of sources in its "cited by" calculation, including PowerPoint and Word documents, and gives everything an equal rank.
  • Variants in how the item is cited can result in more than one entry for the item under study.

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