Guides @ UF: Research Metrics: Measuring the Influence and Impact of Research: Maximizing Influence & Impact

ORCID

Take charge of your online presence: Get an ORCID!

An ORCID is a unique, persistent identifier for researchers and scholars that stays with you throughout your career. This helps improve the discoverability of your work, connects your works, and eliminates name ambiguity. Get an ORCID profile and link it to your UF Research:

Connect your iD to your work.

Use your iD in grants, publications, datasets, etc.

An ORCID is important for addressing author disambiguation (different authors with the same name) and linking scholarly publications across multiple systems used by publishers, scholarly societies, funding bodies, and employing institutions.

What is ORCID? from ORCID on Vimeo.

Researcher Profiles & Collaboration Tools

Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
FigShare
Figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. By opening up the peer review process, researchers can easily publish null results.
Google Scholar Citations
You can enable automatic addition of your newly published articles to your profile. This would instruct the Google Scholar indexing system to update your profile as it discovers new articles that are likely yours. It is good practice to review the publications attributed to you in Google Scholar periodically for accuracy. You can also create a public profile with your articles and citation metrics. If you make your profile public, it can appear in Google Scholar search results when someone searches for your name. This will make it easier for your colleagues worldwide to follow your work.

Pivot
Courtesy of UF Research. A comprehensive database for funding opportunities.

ResearchGate
Professional network for scientists and researchers.
ResearcherID
"A Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier that connects you to your publications across the Web of Science ecosystem (e.g., Web of Science, Publons, and InCites) and provides the global research community with an invaluable index to author information."