Managing Researcher Profiles

Managing your research profiles across different citation platforms is important because no single platform covers your entire research footprint. Each one has different data sources, serves different purposes, and adopts different metrics mechanisms. By managing your research profiles, it:

1. Ensures Accurate and Complete Representation of Your Work

• If you don’t manage your profiles, some of your papers may be missing, duplicated, or attributed to someone else.
• Actively maintaining your profiles ensures your research output and citation records are complete and correct everywhere it counts.

2. Strengthens Your Academic Identity Across Systems

• Managing your profiles reduces confusion and ensures your scholarly identity remains unified and traceable.
• Consistency across profiles helps confirm your identity—especially if you have a common name or multiple institutional affiliations.
• ORCID, for example, acts as a permanent researcher ID that connects your work across all databases, grant applications, and publishers.

3. Enhances Visibility and Reach

• Different audiences use different platforms. Maintaining research profile on different platforms enhance your works' visibility and the opportunities for citing by other researchers.

4. Supports Career Progression and Evaluation

• Keeping your citation records consistent across platforms helps ensure fair and accurate assessment of your research impact by universities, ranking organisations, and funding bodies.

5. Facilitates Collaboration and Networking

• Profiles with up-to-date publications and affiliations convey professionalism and credibility.

6. Complies with Publishing and Funding Requirements

• Many publishers and funding bodies require ORCID IDs or profile links of specific citation platforms for applications and reports.

Here are some major citation platforms and research profile platforms that researchers commonly use to showcase your scholarly works:

1. University's institutional research information management system

HSUHK Scholars

2. Scopus Author Profile

Part of Scopus database

3. Web of Science Researcher Profile

Part of Web of Science database

4. Google Scholar

Citation database indexed by Google

5. ORCID

ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.