Finding yourself: Helping faculty find and fix their author profiles
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Finding Yourself: Helping Faculty Find and Fix their Author Profiles Jan Fransen & Carolyn Rauber Purpose Outreach Strategy Workflow University of Minnesota Twin Cities What is an author profile? A number of free and subscription database products have author profiles, including Web of Science, Scopus, SciVal Experts, Google Scholar, and ORCID. Author profiles aggregate and analyze a person’s publishing output. Data in an author profile may include: • Name variations • Affiliations, past and present • Publication count • Citation count • h-Index Publication and citation counts are affected by the scope of the database, the accuracy of the “cited by” algorithm, and the The target audience is authors: faculty and graduate students. We developed a 60-minute workshop focusing on author profiles in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and ORCID. It will be offered as a library workshop, and we will be pursuing opportunities to present at departmental faculty meetings. The content may also lend itself to online instruction. One possibility is an adaptation of the University of Minnesota assignment calculator (www.lib.umn.edu/apps/ac/) coupled with tutorials that illustrate how to create profiles in different databases and in ORCID. Evidence “We noticed that Web of Science database and Google Citation Gadget produce somewhat different citation counts and h-indexes. … Is there a universally accepted source for citation index?” “What is the most reliable source of citation records? I have been using Web of Science, but keep running into several problems. … Are there alternatives? ” At the University of Minnesota, librarians frequently receive questions from faculty about author metrics. These metrics are used for promotion/tenure review and to evaluate productivity of potential collaborators. Librarians can help faculty understand the content of their author profiles and identify ways to improve their academic presence online. We work with engineers and scientists, and they want evidence that they need to do something before they invest the time. We have some striking examples of how different a profile can look from one database to another. Researchers are more likely to implement our suggestions if we give them a clear roadmap they can follow or turn over to administrative staff. Workflows for managing author profiles will vary by discipline and institution. This example is designed for researchers in the sciences at the University of Minnesota. Scopus • Most U of M researchers in Science and Engineering will have a Scopus Author ID • Search Scopus for your name & record your Author ID • If you find more than one author profile for yourself, request that they be merged ORCID • ORCID.org is a publisher-agnostic ID and web presence site • Use your Scopus Author ID to add publications automatically to your ORCID account WoS • Search for yourself. If you find citations, set up a Researcher ID account • Import information from ORCID • Add citations that are in WoS but not yet associated with your Researcher ID and synchronize to ORCID Google Schola r • Set up a profile associated with your Google account • Use your Researcher ID and ORCID accounts, plus your CV to make sure all publications are added SciVal Expert s • Publications for your Experts@Minnesota profile come from Scopus, but may not be there if you’ve just updated your Scopus profile • Add research interests and keywords • Add links to your CV and faculty web page Nicholas Hopper, Computer Science & Engineering Database Publication Count h-index Google Scholar 86 21 Scopus 42 9 Web of Science 8 3 When choosing a place to view an author profile, people tend to choose the databases they know. They may need a reminder about how databases differ in purpose and in scope. They also might not be aware of how the institution’s specific subscription impacts their author profile. At the University of Minnesota, conference proceedings are indexed in Scopus, but are not included in our Scopus 8432 unique titles Web of Science 934 unique titles 11377 overlap titles Analysis from Academic Database Assessment Tool Center for Research Libraries (adat.crl.edu) Scopus updated May 2012, Web of Science updated August 2012.
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Finding Yourself: Helping Faculty Find and Fix their Author Profiles
Jan Fransen & Carolyn Rauber
Purpose Outreach Strategy Workflow
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
What is an author profile?
A number of free and subscription database products have author profiles, including Web of Science, Scopus, SciVal Experts, Google Scholar, and ORCID.
Author profiles aggregate and analyze a person’s publishing output. Data in an author profile may include:
• Name variations• Affiliations, past and present• Publication count• Citation count• h-Index
Publication and citation counts are affected by the scope of the database, the accuracy of the “cited by” algorithm, and the accuracy of author identification.
The target audience is authors: faculty and graduate students. We developed a 60-minute workshop focusing on author profiles in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and ORCID. It will be offered as a library workshop, and we will be pursuing opportunities to present at departmental faculty meetings.
The content may also lend itself to online instruction. One possibility is an adaptation of the University of Minnesota assignment calculator (www.lib.umn.edu/apps/ac/) coupled with tutorials that illustrate how to create profiles in different databases and in ORCID.
Evidence
“We noticed that Web of Science database and Google Citation Gadget produce somewhat different citation counts and h-indexes. … Is there a universally accepted source for citation index?”
“What is the most reliable source of citation records? I have been using Web of Science, but keep running into several problems. … Are there alternatives? ”
At the University of Minnesota, librarians frequently receive questions from faculty about author metrics. These metrics are used for promotion/tenure review and to evaluate productivity of potential collaborators. Librarians can help faculty understand the content of their author profiles and identify ways to improve their academic presence online.
We work with engineers and scientists, and they want evidence that they need to do something before they invest the time. We have some striking examples of how different a profile can look from one database to another.
Researchers are more likely to implement our suggestions if we give them a clear roadmap they can follow or turn over to administrative staff. Workflows for managing author profiles will vary by discipline and institution. This example is designed for researchers in the sciences at the University of Minnesota.
Scopus
• Most U of M researchers in Science and Engineering will have a Scopus Author ID
• Search Scopus for your name & record your Author ID
• If you find more than one author profile for yourself, request that they be merged
ORCID
• ORCID.org is a publisher-agnostic ID and web presence site
• Use your Scopus Author ID to add publications automatically to your ORCID account
WoS
• Search for yourself. If you find citations, set up a Researcher ID account
• Import information from ORCID• Add citations that are in WoS but not yet
associated with your Researcher ID and synchronize to ORCID
Scholar
• Set up a profile associated with your Google account
• Use your Researcher ID and ORCID accounts, plus your CV to make sure all publications are added
SciVal Expert
s
• Publications for your Experts@Minnesota profile come from Scopus, but may not be there if you’ve just updated your Scopus profile
• Add research interests and keywords• Add links to your CV and faculty web page
Nicholas Hopper, Computer Science & EngineeringDatabase Publication Count h-index
Google Scholar 86 21Scopus 42 9Web of Science 8 3
When choosing a place to view an author profile, people tend to choose the databases they know. They may need a reminder about how databases differ in purpose and in scope.
They also might not be aware of how the institution’s specific subscription impacts their author profile. At the University of Minnesota, conference proceedings are indexed in Scopus, but are not included in our subscription to Web of Science.
Scopus8432 unique
titles
Web of Science934 unique titles
11377 overlap titles
Analysis from Academic Database Assessment Tool Center for Research Libraries (adat.crl.edu)Scopus updated May 2012, Web of Science updated August 2012.
