Research Guides: Scholarly Publishing Guide: Your scholarly profile

Your scholarly profile

"I think about the academic profile as a narrative. It is a narrative of the scholar we are and the scholar we want to be. Put more simply, an academic profile is a story we tell to ourselves and to other people and organizations. Our profile story focuses on the kind of scholarly work we have done, can do and hope to do in the future. ... It brings together our various experiences, publications, networks, teaching and professional relationships." -- Pat Thomson, Professor of Education in the School of Education, The University of Nottingham

Organizing and publicizing your scholarly profile can bring crucial benefits to you and your research including:

enhancing opportunities to connect and collaborate with other scholars and/or community members interested in your work
creating a comprehensive collection of your work, experience and interests for use in promotion and tenure

Here are some great tools to help you create the kind of scholarly profile you want.

ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent, unique digital identifier to distinguish you from other researchers and link you and your research and professional activities.
Impactstory
Demonstrates impact of research beyond citations by gathering data including views, saves, shares and social media mentions.
Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is software that retrieves and analyzes academic citations and produces a variety of citation metrics including several forms of the h-index

Academic Social Networking

An increasingly popular platform for sharing research and enhancing collaboration among like-minded researchers by promoting connections via online platforms such as Mendeley, Academia.edu and Research Gate. Users create online profiles, post/link to their publications and follow others with similar research interests.

Research Gate
11M+ members – highest use in sciences; strong presence of Brock researchers
Academia.edu
- 31M users – highest use in social sciences, humanities
Mendeley
- 3+ million users