Creating Author Profiles

Updating your Digital Measures with your latest publications is important. Although this information is internal to UCCS, faculty reported publications in Digital Measures provides the most complete picture we have of UCCS research.

Digital Measures | Watermark activity reporting:

• Is internal to UCCS, not a public profile that anyone could see
• Is used to study and quantify research at UCCS by administrators
• Is the most complete picture we have of research at UCCS

This page covers how to use your Google Scholar account to update your Digital Measures and ORCID. For information on the basics of updating and maintaining your Digital Measures profile, see the link below.

1. Update your Google Scholar profile

• Log into your Google Scholar Profile [opens in a new tab]
• Click on the My Profile icon
• Click on the [+] icon to add publications to your profile, either that Google Scholar finds for you or that you input manually

2. Export your recent publications as a BibTeX file

• Select the check boxes next to your new publications
• Click on the Export option
• Choose BibTeX as your file choice.
• If this takes you to a blank page with just the BibTeX content, right click and choose Save As.

• Change your file type to all files
• Name your file and whatever the name is, put .bib afterwards. 
  • Example: My Awesome 2025 Research.bib

3. Use the BibTeX file to update ORCID

• Log in to ORCID [opens new tab]
• Click on the (+) Add button in your Works section and choose Add BibTeX from the dropdown menu
• Upload your BibTeX file
• Edit where needed

4. Use the BibTex file to update Digital Measures

• Log in to Digital Measures [opens in new tab]
• Go to your Activities, then Intellectual Contributions and Publications
• Click on the Import button
• Click on the Choose File… button and upload your BibTeX file
• Resolve any duplication, author issues on click through menu
• Edit where needed