Welcome to the section on Researcher Profiles.
For researchers, having up-to-date profiles can lead to:
This page of the guide will provide the general content and benefits of Researcher Profiles, and will outline 2 of the most common kinds of profile.
Researcher profiles are publicly accessible bodies of information associated with a researcher, containing information about professional academic works and achievements. A researcher profile enables information about the researcher, their work and career to be visible and accessible.This can encourage collaboration, and provide insight into your research's impact and engagement. A research profile will bring together all your research outputs onto a single platform, making the research easy to find, maximizing visibility of research outputs, connecting the researcher to the wider research community, and providing measures of impact.
A researcher profile is associated with an identifier. An identifier is a persistent URL or unique number (e.g. an ORCID 16-digit iD) that will link back to your researcher profile.
MP staff are encouraged to establish their own research profiles and identifiers.
Each researcher profile has different strengths, together they can:
The most common types of researcher profiles include:
Researcher Profiles usually include:
Make sure to keep your profiles accurate and up-to-date.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) refers to both the ORCID identifier and the ORCID profile.
An ORCID identifier is a unique 16-digit, persistent and personal identifier that is usually expressed as a URL that links to your ORCID profile.
Benefits:
See here to being creating your profile: ORCID Registration
There are 4 ways to add your research to your ORCID profile:
For each, go to your Works section and click +Add in the header, and select which method you would like to use from the drop-down menu. Works will appear on the main page of your ORCID profile.
Search & Link involves selecting databases for ORCID to search, based on the information you have provided in your profile. The automated search will then provide results it believes you have authored which you can then add to your profile.
To add works to your profile with this method:
ORCID recommends you only use this method if the other options do not work, as there are known issues associated with it. To use BibTex to add works to your profile:
See here for more information from ORCID, including known issues
To add works to your profile manually you will need to supply the information about the work. It is recommended you fill in as many of the information fields as possible, including any identifiers (e.g. DOI, ISBN). Once you have completed the form, click Save Changes and the work will be added to your main page.
Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature from databases and institutional repositories in an open and public search engine.
A Google Scholar Profile keeps track of any research outputs you have indexed in Google Scholar. The profile is created and managed by you using a Gmail account.
Google Scholar profiles usually include:
To set up your Google Scholar profile you will need a Gmail address to use. This email is not made public on your profile.
Google Scholar's Help section provides instructions on setting up your profile, managing updates, and citation metrics. They can be found here:
Create your Google Scholar profile using your private Gmail account. This will be the email account used to log into your profile. It will not be publicly visible and will also ensure continued access to your profile should you change universities.
Complete the registration form by providing biographical and professional information, including any research interests and affiliations.
You can then proceed to adding articles to your profile.
See Setting up your profile for more information.
After you have set up your Google Scholar profile's details, you will be asked to verify articles written by you based on your name. Add all the articles you have written.
Then inform Google Scholar how you would like to manage updates on your articles. This can either be applied automatically, or you can choose to review them beforehand.
For more information on managing your article list, including adding missing articles and removing articles that are not yours, see Setting up your profile.
You can import your articles from Google Scholar into your ORCID profile as a BibTeX file. To do so:
See General questions for more information.