Bibliometrics & Responsible Research Evaluation: Your Researcher Profile

RMS (Research Management System) Profiles enable researchers and academic staff to maintain an up-to-date Researcher Profile to showcase their research expertise on UCD websites.

Some features of the system include:

• Pre-filled profile for all academics
• Automatic updates from Web of Science & PubMed
• Automatic updates from University systems including HR, Student Registration & Financial systems
• Feeds for researcher profiles on websites
• Seamless integration with the Research Repository UCD - when uploading publications to RMS Profiles researchers can add the final draft version for upload to the Research Repository UCD. 

To access the system go to UCD Connect, select RMS Profiles and enter your UCD Connect log-in

The system is used to collate the University’s research outputs for the President’s annual report and to create Researcher Profile pages on UCD school and institutional websites.

Google Scholar Profile provide a way to profile your research and keep track of citations. You can make your profile public, so that it appears in google searches for your name. On the Google Scholar page click on the hamburger icon on the top left and select My Profile to manage your profile and citations.

You can quickly add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time; and your citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. You can choose to have your list of articles updated automatically or review the updates yourself.

Instructions to set up a profile

1. Sign in to Google
2. Access the profile creation page: Go to Google Scholar and click on My Profile. 
3. Fill in your information: Enter your name, affiliation (your institution), email address (preferably your university email), and research areas. 
4. Add your publications: Google Scholar will suggest articles that it thinks are yours. Carefully review these suggestions and add the ones that are actually yours, ensuring you don't include publications by other authors with the same name. 
5. Choose update settings: Decide whether you want Google Scholar to automatically update your profile with new publications or if you want to review them first. 
6. Set profile visibility: Make your profile public if you want others to be able to find it. 
7. Personalize your profile: Add a photo and a brief description to make your profile more engaging. 

"ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.  ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and in its cooperation with other identifier systems." Having a unique ORCID number means you can claim your research, and avoid confusion with other authors of a similar name to your own.

Scopus Author ID

The Scopus database automatically assigns an ID profile to authors to help identify and link their publications. If you have several name variants or you have changed affiliations, your publications may be spread over a number of different author profiles.

You can check your current Scopus author ID and publications by running an author search on Scopus using your name and current affiliation. You can manage your profile and check your publications are correct using the Scopus to ORCID wizard which will then link the publications associated with your Scopus author ID with your ORCID.

Publons (formerly ResearcherID)

ResearcherID is a unique identifier used to distinguish your publications on the Web of Science database, and is now fully integrated with Clarivate Analytics' Publons platform. Once you have registered, you can identify and claim your publications indexed in Web of Science, and your ResearcherID will then be associated with these works and they will be added to your Publons profile. You can also import publications to your Publons profile using ORCID.

Keeping these profiles up to date, and ensuring that Scopus and Web of Science records accurately reflect your publication history, is important to help ensure that the citation metrics and analysis which these databases provide are also accurate. For example, if some of your publications are not attributed correctly to your Scopus author ID, Scopus will not include any citations to these when calculating the corresponding bibliometric indicators for your profile, such as citations per publication and your h-index.