Could someone who saw you at a conference easily find a list of your works? Could a potential collaboration partner quickly find out what projects you are currently working on? Is the peer-reviewing work you do visible?

Having a consistent author identity is an important part of your online visibility, and has several advantages. This module provides information about maintaining your author identity and tips for keeping a good record of your activities, showing you how to use:

Unique author identifiers
Online platforms for your publication and activity record ("profiles")

Both of these are helpful for your online visibility, as well as for getting accurate publishing statistics and seeing who has cited you.

A spider diagram showing 5 uses of profiles; 1) Formal requirements, 2) login tool/author id, 3) Record keeping for you, 4) Visibility for others, 5) Publishing statistics

These pages are maintained by the Bibliometrics group at the University Library. Read about our activities or contact us.