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Research Identity

Tools to manage, track and report your Research Identity

What is your Research Identity?

Your research identity consists of a number of elements that together represent you as a researcher. These elements include:

  • Your name as it appears on your publications
  • Your profiles listing your publications and other research activities
  • Your institutional and organisational affiliations
  • Your collaborations
  • Citations of your research and publications
  • Your peer review and editorial activities
  • Media acknowledgement of your research and publications, including social media

Collating these elements in order to communicate your research identity to institutions, publications and funding bodies is key to your research career.

There are a variety of researcher ID management tools available to help you with this task, including ORCID, Web of Science ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID.

Why manage your Research Identity

Researcher profiles and IDs can be used to:

Start managing your Research Identity 

Step 1: Create an ORCID

All University of Tasmania researchers, including staff and HDR candidates, are required to sign up to the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) Register and create a profile.

Navigate via the menu tabs to see instructions and guidance on using your ORCID.

Ensure you add your ORCID to your Elements profile.
 

Step 2: Create and link to other research profiles

In addition to creating your unique digital identifier in the ORCID Register, you may wish to integrate your ORCID with other profile services such as Google Scholar, Scopus Author ID or Web of Science ResearcherID. Click on the tabs for each tool in the sidebar for more information on these services.
 

Step 3: Use your Research IDs and Profiles effectively
  • keep them current
  • connect and integrate profiles
  • track citation metrics
  • publicise your ID: use it in your publications, add it to your website, use ID on posters etc

This 2020 webinar gives an overview on developing and managing your researcher identity. It explains what research identity is and outlines the benefits of researcher identifiers. The focus of the session is on four key identifiers: ORCID, Google Scholar Citations, Scopus Author ID, and ResearcherID. It discusses how you can create and maintain the identifiers, shows examples and explains what is expected of UTAS researchers.

Please note: some details are no longer current, but the video still gives a good overview.

Developing & Maintaining Your Research Identity [24:24]