Research Impact & Metrics

Developing scholarly profiles, including claiming your works with a unique identifier and cultivating an online scholar presence, can help raise the visibility of your research. This guide on creating and claiming unique author identifiers and profiles can help you curate and maintain an online researcher profile that will allow you to disambiguate your work from the work of authors that share a similar name, and keep your works together if you change your name or publish under variant name forms.

Benefits of a unique profile:

• Showcases your scholarly activities and research output in one place
• Helps in identifying you to potential collaborators
• Distinguishes you from other researchers, helping to avoid misidentification
• Manages your publications list
• Tracks citation counts

Distinguish Yourself in Three Easy Steps

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in research workflows such as manuscript and grant submissions, automatically links your professional activities to you, ensuring that you are recognized for your work. ORCIDs are required for many grant applications, journal submissions, and incoming LSU faculty members.

1. Connect your ORCID and LSU Accounts

When you connect your accounts, you'll be able to log into ORCID with your LSU ID, rather than needing to keep track of a separate ORCID username and password.

Create or connect

2. Populate your ORCID record / authorize a librarian to help

Add your professional information and link to your other identifiers (Scopus, ResearcherID). Connect with CrossRef, DataCite, Publons, and more. Add publication data to your ORCID record by using the Search and Link Wizard, importing your citations as a BibTeX file, entering them manually, or asking a librarian to do it for you.

Email orcid@lsu.edu to authorize a librarian to import your scholarly publications to your ORCiD profile and to make connections that will keep it up to date.

3. Use your ORCID ID

Connect your Elements and SciENcv profiles to your ORCiD save time and ensure the accuracy of your scholarly record. Include your ORCID identifier in your email signature, when you submit to publications or apply for grants, and in any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work.

1. Go to Web of Science through LSU Libraries.
2. Register for an account.
3. Click on My Profile in the drop-down menu under your name.
4. Click on Verify your Author Record and follow the directions. 
5. Claim your Web of Science author record page and make sure your Web of Science ResearcherID is linked to your ORCID. After you claim your record, a green checkmark should appear next to your name.
6. Perform an author search and review the results. Note any duplicates. Review your record and submit changes to Web of Science (Clarivate). 

The library does not have a subscription to Scopus, but you can still view your Scopus Author Profile.

You should be able to use the Author Feedback Wizard to verify and correct your profile. Make sure your record is connected to your ORCID.

If you have a public Google Scholar profile, make sure you review it on a regular basis to make sure it is correct. If you do not have a Google Scholar Profile, you can create one using your Google account.

Google has detailed help on setting up your profile.