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Assess Your Research Impact

Learn how to assess your research impact, demonstrate your impact with quantitative and qualitative evidence, and craft a compelling impact narrative.

Create a Google Scholar Profile

  1. Add your basic profile information, including your institutional affiliation, your university email address, and a photo.
  2. Add your publications: Google Scholar will attempt to identify articles that belong to you, but if you have a common name, it will likely provide you with a list of "author groups" made up of authors with similar names and articles tentatively associated with each author. Once you have identified the correct article group, review the article list and remove any publications that do not belong to you or that you do not want to add to your profile. You may also need to manually add any publications Google Scholar missed.
  3. Make your profile public.
  4. Manage your profile over time: If you chose to allow Google Scholar to automatically add publications, periodically review what articles have been added, or sign up for alerts to be notified as articles are added. Otherwise, Google Scholar will email you to approve any new articles.

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Create a Web of Science ResearcherID and Profile

ResearcherID is a unique identifier that enables authors to track publications and citation metrics in Web of Science.

1. Create a Web of Science account.

If you already have publications indexed by Web of Science, create a Web of Science account to claim an automatically generated author record and ResearcherID. Otherwise, you will receive a ResearcherID when you create your account.

2. Review your researcher profile.

Make sure the publications listed on your researcher profile belong to you and not to authors with the same or similar names. You may also need to merge duplicate author records to ensure there is a single ResearcherID associated with your publications.

3. Connect your profile with your ORCID iD.

Once you have connected your ORCID iD, you will be asked to grant permission for permission to update your ORCID profile. Once you grant permission, you can sync your profiles, keeping your ORCID profile up to date with changes in your Web of Science researcher profile and vice versa.

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