Research Cycle: Researcher Profiles

Writing for research in publications, conference abstracts, thesis is only part of establishing your research profile.

It is important you make use of all available tools, to ensure your research output and activities are discoverable and accessible

1.  Correctly attributed to you - by setting up an ORCID ID

2. Capturing your research output and partnerships via Research repositories.

3.  Discoverable via networking tools for researchers, such as Research Gate

4.  Promotion to a wider audience via the use of various social media tools.

Your online presence can work to bring your research to a wider audience, and it is important to distinguish your work from other authors.  This can be challenging, particularly for authors with common surnames and with the various ways of denoting a person's name.  Researcher IDs like ORCID help you disambiguate yourself from other researchers and to compile and showcase your own work for the scholarly community at large.

An ORCID ID is a free, internationally recognised researcher ID that generates a persistent digital identifier unique to you that distinguishes your research output from other researchers and links your name to your research to ensure a consistent, reliable attribution of your work.

• It connects your research outputs and scholarly activities such as manuscript submissions, grant applications, patent applications, artistic performances and more.
• Is required by publishers and funders for manuscript submissions and grant applications.
• Is integrated with the ARC Research Management System allowing researchers to populate research data output   
• Makes you identifiable by potential collaborators, funders, prospective employers, publishers and more.

More Information: Ten things you need to know about ORCID right now

Register for your ORCID ID here at https://orcid.org/register

What is a Repository?

A repository is a  is a centralised repository that identifies, captures, stores and facilitates retrieval of the intellectual output of Institutes and universities, which is important for research partnerships such as Monash Partners.  It curates and enables discovery of the intellectual output of Cabrini Institute and various partnerships for the collaborative benefit of local and global clinicians and health professionals.

If you undertake research in partnership with universities you can upload your publication output in the following repositories.

Monash University Research Repository 

LaTrobe University Research Repository

Notre Dame University Research Repository

Alternative avenues to consider are the following 

A Google Scholar Citations account allows you to showcase your work and keep track of your citations.  Setting up an account is simple and if you make it public, people searching for you in Google Scholar will be able to find your publications grouped together.

There a number of online networking tools that provide a platform to showcase your work and connect you to other researchers.

• Academia.edu: A platform created to allow researchers to share their research.  Researchers in all disciplines can share their work and 'follow' others in their field.
• ResearchGate: Similar to Academia.edu and facilitates the sharing of research and collaboration with other researchers in your field.
• Mendeley: Primarily known as a citation management tool, Mendeley includes a social networking element that allows the sharing of research libraries and tracks downloads and views as an alternative research impact measurement.
• LinkedIn, a career and industry-oriented social network, allows individuals and companies to create profiles and develop and engage with professionally-oriented connections.  Stacy Konkiel in her blog post Make LinkedIn work for your research (2014) provides general advice on how to create an effective and low maintenance profile.

Social Media can be used to connect and network with people.  It can also be used to share and promote your research, which can help you reach a wider audience and engage with colleagues and followers.

• Twitter: Provides the opportunity to engage with a diverse range of individuals, groups and organisations that might otherwise be difficult to reach.  This can include industry, researchers, community groups, media, organisations, government bodies, practitioners, and many others.
• Facebook: Good for informal maintenance of existing professional relationships, connecting with non-academic audiences and advertising events.  You can create pages for events like public talks or symposia and share messages, photos, videos, and links to your work. 
• Blogging: Blogs can be used to publicize your research, reach a larger, more diverse audiences, and increase your citation rates.  A tool like WordPress is a free and easy-to-use web-based software for the creation of websites and blogs