Creating Author Profiles

Creating and maintaining public profiles around your research activity help further your work and make you recognizable.

Benefits of having author profiles:

• Helps people interested in your research see your other works
• Potential co-authors can find you and your work
• Awards and grant committees can easily locate you and your work
• Helps differentiate you from other researchers with similar names

Google Scholar

• You create and have full control of what publications appear on your account
• Public
• Completely multidisciplinary
• Provides citation information

Learn more about creating and updating your Google Scholar profile here.

ORCID

• You create and have full control of what publications appear on your account
• Public
• Completely multidisciplinary
• Intended primarily to help distinguish you from researchers with similar names

Learn more about creating and updating your ORCID profile here.

Scopus

• Created automatically by Scopus, and not everyone will have one
• Mostly contains research in the health and natural sciences, but some social science and humanities research.
• Public

Learn more about claiming and updating your Scopus profile here.

Digital Measures

• Internal to UCCS, not publicly visible
• Only for UCCS faculty
• Helps UCCS keep track of faculty publishing
• Automatically created, but you are responsible for updating
• Allows for imports from Scopus, ORCID, and Google Scholar

Learn more about updating your Digital Measures activities here.

SciENcv

• Biosketch format used only for NIH and NSF grant applications
• You create and have full control of what publications appear on your SciENcv
• Integrates with ORCID account for easy updating

Learn more about updating your SciENcv here.