Measuring Research Quality and Impact - Research Guide

Murdoch University Academic Profiles showcase Murdoch academics and their work: outputs, projects, research and teaching activities.

Key information to add to your Academic Profile includes:

• A brief introduction to your research under Describe your research
• Your ORCID and any other author identifiers under Global IDs
• A profile image 
• Keywords about your research under Research Topics.

To further add to your profile, you can include links to other professional profiles such as Google Scholar or websites associated with your research or teaching, add awards or education, and any affiliations to other positions you hold within Murdoch or externally. 

Research Publications, Activities, and Projects

Your Academic Profile includes research outputs, with previous publications having been migrated to your Academic Profile in the Research Portal from the former Research Repository. New research outputs will be added to the Research Portal using a smart harvesting process. For further information, see Contribute your research publications in the Research Portal. 

 Activities are another type of content that can be added to your academic profile. These might include:

• Teaching 
• Service to the Community, Institution or Profession
• Consulting
• Supervising, Advising and Mentoring
• Events. 

For further information, see Update your academic profile on the intranet.

ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID is a global not-for-profit organisation with a vision for a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions.

ORCID provide three interrelated services:

• The ORCID iD - a persistent digital identifier which distinguishes you from other researchers 
• An ORCID record connected to the ORCID iD, which stores automatic links to all your research and links all your research with you
• A set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), along with services and support of communities of practice that enable interoperability.

Registering for an ORCID profile enables you to attach your identity to your research outputs such as articles, citations, datasets, patents, experiments and equipment. You can easily share your ORCID record with an increasing number of funding, publications, repositories, and other research workflows. Using ORCID streamlines manuscript submission and grant applications, as many systems enable auto-population of forms when you log in to their systems with your ORCID iD.

It is highly recommended that you:

• Register with ORCID (note: if you are unsure if you you already have an ORCID iD or record, search for your name in the ORCID registry)
• Add your ORCID iD as a Global ID to your Murdoch Academic Profile
• Link your ORCID iD to any other identifiers, such as Scopus Author Identifier or Web of Science ResearcherID.

Scopus uses an algorithm to automatically generate a unique author identifier number and profile when an author first has a publication indexed in Scopus. The Scopus Author Identifier assigns a unique number to each author in the Scopus database and groups together all their publications. It accounts for variant versions of names by matching affiliations, addresses, subject areas, co-authors and dates of publication. It automatically calculates citation counts and the h-index.

To find your Scopus Author Identifier:

• Log in to Scopus
• Use the 'Authors' search to search by Author name or ORCID
• Click on the name to access the author profile generated by Scopus
• Locate the Scopus Author Identifier number below the author name and affiliation details.

You can request corrections to your author profile if a publication has been wrongly assigned, the preferred name needs to be changed, or some documents indexed in Scopus are missing from the profile. For more information, see the Scopus Author Profile FAQs and How do I correct my author details?.

It is recommended that you link your ORCID iD to your Scopus author profile, so viewers can see the link to your ORCID record on the Author details page. To associate your Scopus author profile with ORCID:

• Log in to Scopus
• Use the 'Authors' search to search by Author name
• Click on the name to access the author profile generated by Scopus
• Select 'Connect to ORCID' 
• Follow the prompts to link the author profile to ORCID.

Web of Science ResearcherID

Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier that differentiates researchers in Web of Science. It aims to solve the problem of identifying unique authors and ensure publications are correctly attributed. A Web of Science ResearcherID can be found on both a Web of Science Researcher Profile and an algorithmically generated author record in Web of Science Core Collection.

Web of Science Researcher Profile
Author records created by the algorithm can be claimed by the author to create a Web of Science Researcher Profile. Information that can be included on the profile includes researcher information such as name and institution, Web of Science ResearcherID, and publication metrics. 

If you previously had a Publons profile, your profile may have been migrated over to a Web of Science Researcher Profile. See Web of Science Researcher Profiles for further information..

Other identifiers can be linked, such as ORCID, allowing publications to sync between profiles. Other methods of adding publications include system suggested publications, identifier import (e.g. DOI), and file upload (RIS, CSV or Bibtex format). Profiles also contain citation metrics such as number of times cited and h-index are automatically calculated using details from Web of Science.

See Researcher Search, Author Record, and Web of Science Researcher Profiles for further information. 

Google Scholar Profiles 

Create a profile in Google Scholar to ensure correct attribution of your publications and citations. This will allow you to check who is citing your articles, track citations over time, and calculate several citation metrics including h-index. Homepage links can be added to a profile, for example to your Academic Profile or ORCID record. Profiles can be private or public. All citations should be checked for accuracy.