Before you begin completing steps that will enhance your scholarly profile, you may want to get a baseline measurement of your scholarly impact and digital identity right now. Before you can tell your research story, you might want to see what you have already written. After following certain steps to help you build your digital identity, you can repeat these steps to note the changes and improvement to the accessibility of your scholarship and the quality of your public digital identity. Throughout your career, check in on your "professional self" online and update areas that need attention. Taking stock of the ways in which your scholarship is discovered, viewed, and used can help give you ideas on expanding your reach. Updating your professional profile can help potential collaborators and scholars network with you while making your work more discoverable, and will yield more citations of your work in future studies. These improvements will not only provide you with a strengthened portfolio for promotion but ensure that your scholarship continues through collaborations and future research. |
Google (and Google Scholar) Yourself.
View how your professional profile and scholarship are seen online via the most-used search engine.
Google your name (hint: if you have a common name, you may want to also Google your affiliation with UTA, or any other institutions along with it). Record the different places you appear and note which results come up first (LinkedIn, UTA website, etc). Are these sites up-to-date? What could be improved? What results do you wish would rise to the top?
Freely available databases sometimes provide citation counts. The most popular of these is Google Scholar. Do the same as instructed above. How many citations do you have for each publication? Are your articles easy to find? Are they accessible in full-text? For more information on linking Google Scholar to UTA see http://libguides.uta.edu/googlescholar
Need (Don't Have) a Google Scholar Profile?
Creating and maintaining a Google Scholar Profile can increase the status and reach of your scholarship and research. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.
Now you're ready to explore and review your citations! And don't forget to update your profile regularly. See Google Scholar Citations for detailed setup instructions and further information.
Web of Science
Web of Science is the recognized standard for citation searching. You can obtain a Researcher ID and use it to view/track publication history in ISI-listed publications, create citation reports, and calculate h-index. Web of Science indexes over 12,000 high impact journals in 250 disciplines, and includes:
Check Web of Science