Keep track of citations to your articles - enhance your online reputation

Suggestions for researchers to enhance online reputation

There are a number a useful places for researchers to maintain an online profile and showcase their work.
These tools enable you to track your citations and h-index and make your publications easily retrievable. Some are detailed below:

Google Scholar Citations

• Create a public profile e.g. Eamon Maher, Michael O'Connell

Researcher ID (Web of Science)

• Make your publications easily retrievable with your Research ID badge

Other similar communities and useful links :

Academic Search (Microsoft)
MyScienceWork
Academic.edu

ResearchGate

Mendeley

ARROW@DIT - Institutional repository administered by DIT

Kudos - a free web service that helps promote your research - Kudos user guide .  It can link to your ORCID ID (see below).

ORCID - provides a platform to link these communities together

ORCID provides a unique persistent identifer number linked to your research e.g. Wouter Gerritsma

Already have a Researcher ID? 
A number of organisations have integrated the ORCID registry.  ResearcherID has created an integration with ORCID that allows users to transfer publications as well as profile data between the two systems. From the user's ResearcherID profile or ORCID record they can initiate a link which will add the ORCID ID to their RID account and their RID number to their ORCID record. The user then has the option to transfer works and basic biographical information between the two systems.

Ten things you need to know about ORCID

With an ORCID ID you can join Impactstory for free. With Impactstory you can track buzz on Twitter, blogs, news outlets and more: we're like Google Scholar for your research's online reach. Making a profile takes just seconds:

Social Media

Health check your digital identity - a resource from piirus.ac.uk (accessed 10/11/2016)
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities from the LSE impact blog (accessed 10/11/2016)

Which one should I use?

It is suggested that you have an online presence on them all.  At any one time your citation metrics will be different on each profile so link to the best profile for funding proposals etc.


Academic spam
You should also be aware of academic spam.  A useful blog post from libfocus covers this topic.

Citation metrics
Bibliometrics are measures of an author's influence or impact - Bibliometrics for the individual - NDLR.
Altmetrics - What are altmetrics?

Other related blog topics -
Keeping up to date - current awareness




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Google (IoT) Technology Research Award Pilot - deadline 29th February 2016

Source: pixabay

The Google Research Team have recently launched the Google Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award Pilot. 

"This pilot provides selected researchers in-kind gifts of Google IoT related technologies with the goal of fostering collaboration with the academic community on small-scale (~4-8 week) experiments, discovering what they can do with our software and devices."

The same eligibility conditions as for the Faculty Research Award Program apply - see here.