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Researcher Profiles: Researcher Profiles

Create and manage your researcher profile

Researcher platforms allow authors to maintain and or identify a record of their publications and track their research impact.

Each platform utilizes different type of bibliometrics and selection criteria, with Google Scholar being the most extensive but less selective of the citation databases.

No universal tool exists to measure research impact and scholars should always quote the source of the bibliometric data (citations counts and h-index).

Publons Researcher ID

A Publons account allows you to track your research impact (citation counts) and harvest your publication information from the Web of Science journals (high impact journals), as well as other platforms.

Additional features include:

  • Integrates with your ORCID account.
  • Add any peer review or journal editing work you have done.

Sign up for a free Publons account here or register through an existing ORCID account.

Watch the following video for more information on setting up your account with Publons:

Discover your research impact on the Web of Science

Web of Science tracks research impact at the author, article, journal and the organization level.

WoS Guide

JCR Guide

ESI Guide

SCOPUS Author ID

Scopus is one of the world's largest abstract and citation databases of peer-reviewed research literature. A Scopus Author ID is automatically generated for authors with publications indexed in Scopus. Scopus tracks research impact at the author, article, journal and the organization level.

Use the Scopus author look-up search tool to:

  • Verify if you have a Scopus ID.
  • If you do have an ID, integrate your profile with your existing ORCID account and export records directly to the ORCID platform.
  • Correct multiple IDs for your publications. This happens if your publications have different versions of your name. Use the service Scopus Author Feedback Wizard to merge different accounts.
  • You can use the same personal account credentials for all Elsevier products and services (Science Direct, Mendeley and Scopus).

 

What’s on your Scopus profile page?

 Correct your author details

Discover your research impact on Scopus

Scopus tracks research impact at the author, article, journal and the organization level.

Scopus Guide

Google Scholar Profile

A Google Scholar profile is a simple way of collating your publications and harvesting a list of your works that are not necessarily peer-reviewed (including pre-prints).

  • You will need to have a Google account (Gmail account) to set up a Google Scholar profile.

  • Choose automatic updates to automatically update your publications list. 

  • Update and affiliate your account to the university by adding your MBZUAI email to your profile.

  • Google Scholar does not integrate with ORCID.

    • Download a list of your publications from Google Scholar and upload on ORCID.

A Google Scholar profile includes research impact metrics at the article, journal and author level.