Research Impact

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

ORCID helps with name disambiguation efforts and aims to reduce administrative burdens for researchers.

A number of journals require authors to provide ORCID IDs in order to publish in those journals. A number of funders use ORCID IDs to make funding applications and outcome reporting easier.  For example, ORCID integrates with SciENcv.

You can use ORCID to meet the requirements of the OSTP Memo (August 25, 2022 [Nelson memo]) requiring "federally funded researchers to obtain a digital persistent identifier that meets the common/core standards of a digital persistent identifier service defined in the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance,17 include it in published research outputs when available, and provide federal agencies with the metadata associated with all published research outputs they produce, consistent with the law, privacy, and security considerations."

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.