2022 Research Impact Challenge

Welcome to Day 1 of the 2022 Research Impact Challenge!

Your first challenge is to Claim Professional Profiles. Claiming professional profiles can help you increase the impact of your research by protecting your scholarly identity. Have you published under multiple names throughout the course of your career? Claiming your professional profiles will help you claim your complete publication record regardless of name variations. This will make it easier for people to encounter your entire body of work, and will make your author metrics (covered on day 5) more accurate. 

This year we’re tailoring our challenges to your individual needs. Each day you'll be able to choose between an entry, advanced, or expert challenge depending on your familiarity with the challenge topic. Select your challenge level based on your familiarity with professional profiles like ORCID iD and Google Scholar Profiles. Click on your challenge level using the buttons below to be taken to your challenge. Once you finish, scroll to the bottom of the page to enter the raffle.

To qualify for the raffle*, choose at least one challenge - entry level, advanced, or expert.

Entry: Claim your ORCID and Link to SUNet Advanced: Claim your Google Scholar Profile Expert: Manage your Scopus and Web of Science IDs

* Five lucky participants will receive Lane Medical Library swag bags and promotion of their research by Lane Medical Library 

ORCID Quickstart Tutorial

Today's entry challenge is to claim your ORCID and link to SUNet. Watch the video to learn how to quickly setup your ORCID iD and link it to your SUNet at Stanford. Remember to enter the raffle once you complete today's challenge.

Learn More About ORCID

An ORCID iD helps to disambiguate your research from works by authors and keeps your work connected to you throughout your career. ORCID links you to your research activities and outputs, such as publications, presentations, datasets, grants, peer review activities, and more. It serves as a login for tools such as PubMed - NCBI, Dryad, and Protocols.io. Publishers, funders (e.g., NIH, NSF), and other application and submission systems are increasingly requiring ORCID to attribute work to researchers. By using ORCID, submission systems can automatically populate your research outputs to your ORCID profile.

Why Create A Google Scholar Profile?

Have you ever wondered why some authors have an author profile at the top of Google Scholar search results, while others do not? Those who do have claimed their Google Scholar Profile. Take five minutes today to enhance your discoverability on Google Scholar by claiming yours, too. 

Steps to Claim your Google Scholar Profile

1. Navigate to scholar.google.com, log in, and click "My Profile" at the top of the page. Sign in if prompted.
2.  Fill in your name and affiliation information. You must list your institutional email address in order for your profile to appear in search results. Add keywords relevant to your field of study to make your profile more findable.
3. If you have published under other names, add them by clicking the "+ add another name" button.
4. Next, add publications to your profile. You'll be presented with a list of publications written by people with similar names to yours. Select only the publications that you can claim as your own and would like to be listed publicly on your profile.
5. After adding publications, you'll be asked whether you'd like Google Scholar to automatically add publications to your profile in the future. This can be timesaving but there is a chance you may need to correct the automatic additions if you are assigned a publication written by someone else. 
6. Upload a professional headshot.
7. Click the "Make Profile Public" button in order to appear in Google Scholar search results. 
8. If your co-authors have also claimed their Google Scholar Profiles, you can list them on your profile by clicking the "edit" button next to the "co-authors" heading.
9. Be sure to verify your account using the link sent to your institutional email. Your profile is now complete! 

What are Scopus and Web of Science?

Scopus and Web of Science are two databases that are frequently used to track research impact via citation metrics. It is important for you to be aware of the information these databases have about you to ensure that your researcher profile, and author metrics, are accurate. Take five minutes today to ensure that your information is correct in both databases.

Manage your Scopus Author ID

1. Using the link below, navigate to the Scopus database.
2. Click on the "Authors" tab and search for your name.
3. Click on your profile. Is your ORCID iD displaying beneath your name? If not, click "Connect to ORCID" and authorize Scopus to access your ORCID record to keep your ORCID profile up to date.

4. Click the "Edit Profile" button to specify your preferred name and current affiliation.

5.  When you searched for your name, did you discover that you have more than one author profile in Scopus? If so, select the profiles you would like to merge, and click "Request to merge authors" to correct the error.

Manage your Web of Science ResearcherID

1. Using the link below, navigate to the Web of Science database.
2. Click on the "Researchers" tab and search for your name.
3. Do you see multiple author records that belong to you? Select them, and click the "merge records" button at the top of the search results.
4. Once you've found your author profile, click "Claim my Record." You will be sent to Publons, the ResearcherID platform.
5. At the top of the page, click "log in" or "register" depending on whether or not you already have an account with Clarivate. If you use  EndNote or Web of Science, you likely already have an account.
6. Confirm publications on your dashboard. You can also import your publications from ORCID.

Let Us Know You've Completed Today's Challenge