Research Impact Metrics

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique researcher identifier. ORCID acts like a DOI, but rather than identifying a digital object, it provides a lifelong digital name.

ORCID allows researchers to insert a unique identifier into these transactions, which makes it possible to easily group and collect research activities. ORCID is fully owned and controlled by the researcher. It doesn’t change, irrespective of funder, affiliation or field of research.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC) encourage all researchers applying for funding to have an ORCID identifier.

The Macquarie University Research Authorship Policy stipulates that each author from Macquarie University must have an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). ORCID is a unique researcher identifier that is fully owned and controlled by the researcher. It doesn’t change, irrespective of funder, affiliation or field of research.

ORCID should be linked to your Pure profile.

Macquarie University Library provides ORCID support for researchers, contact your Research or Clinical Librarian for more information. Got a question about ORCID at Macquarie? Please email ORCID@mq.edu.au

Scopus distinguishes between authors with similar names by giving each author a separate Scopus Author ID and grouping together all the documents written by that author. You will be automatically assigned a Scopus Author ID when you publish in a journal indexed by Scopus. Having a Scopus Author ID allows you to easily see a list of publications for an author and view citation metrics such as h-index measures, citation counts, publications and co-authors.

Macquarie University encourages staff to add their Scopus Author ID into Pure and to enable Scopus automated searching in Pure. Please visit our Scopus Author ID page for information .

Your publications on Scopus may be spread over a number of different Author profiles, because these are generated automatically. Linking your ORCID to your Scopus author profile provides information about requesting changes to the way Scopus displays your name or affiliation. You can also report publications incorrectly linked to your profile, or that need to be added to your profile, as long as these publications are already indexed in Scopus.

The Web of Science Researcher Profile allows researchers to manage and showcase their scholarly work with below features:

• Publication Tracking: It allows researchers to track their publications, including those in the Web of Science Core Collection and other sources
• Citation Metrics: The platform provides various citation metrics, such as the h-index, to help researchers understand the impact of their work
• Peer Reviews and Editorial Work: Researchers can also track their peer review activities and editorial board memberships
• Profile Customization: Users can customize their profiles with a profile picture, preferred name, affiliation, and awards
• Integration with ORCID: each profile is distinguished by a unique identifier called a ResearcherID, which can be linked to other researcher profiles such as ORCID.

You need to register a Web of Science account to claim and maintain your Web of Science Researcher Profile. If you already have existing access to Web of Science, EndNote Online or Publons, there is no need to create a new account.

You can create your Web of Science researcher profile by following below steps:

1. Go to Web of Science, run a name search (surname, first name or initials) under Researchers.
2. Open the unclaimed researcher profile containing your publications and click Claim my record. You will then be directed to a page to confirm which publications to add to your profile.
3. If there are multiple profiles under your name, check affiliations and tick the profiles that belong to you, then click Merge Records and follow the prompts,
4. Note you can only claim one profile, but can always merge additional profiles to the profile already claimed.

Please refer to the training materials below for more information, or contact us if you need help. It is important to maintain your Web of Science researcher profile by repeating the above steps regularly after you have claimed your profile.

Google Scholar @MQ allows researchers to create a profile. It can assist researchers in tracking citations to their publications.

Creating your profile:

1. Go to Google Scholar
2. Sign in or create a new account. The SIGN IN button is on the top right of the screen. You may use your MQ email to create an account if you do not want to create a personal Gmail account. However, if you do, you may lose access to the profile if you leave MQ and lose access to your MQ email account.
3. Click on ‘My Profile’ to set up your Google Scholar Profile. Once your profile is set up you can edit it through this link. 
4. Fill in your details:
   1. Use your name as it appears on your publications
   2. Include your Macquarie University email address in the ‘Email for verification field’ so your profile is eligible for inclusion in Google Scholar search results. Your email address will not be displayed on your public profile.
5. Click Next
6. Adding Publications: Google Scholar will provide you with a list of publications they think have been authored by you. Read through the list and select the groups of publications or individual articles that belong to you.
7. You can remove publications that don’t belong to you or that you don’t want to appear on your profile by selecting them and choosing ‘Delete’ from the Actions menu.
8. Once you have added your publications, you will be asked whether you want Google to automatically add new publications to your profile in future. You can choose to have updates applied automatically or to review them beforehand. In either case, you can edit your profile to remove unwanted publications as outlined in the point above (7).
9. Set your profile to public so it will appear in Google Scholar search results. To make your profile public, click the Edit profile pencil iconcheck the ‘Make my profile public’ box and Save.

10. On the top right-hand section of your profile, click ‘EDIT’ next to Co-authors to search for co-authors and link to their Google Scholar profiles.
11. Once you have made your profile public use to receive email notifications when new citations to your publications are identified.

Maintaining your profile:

12. Check your profile regularly to ensure publications by similarly named authors are not incorrectly attributed to you.
13. To update your profile details, click on the pencil iconnext to your name.
14. To add publications, use the + button and choose an option:

‘Add article groups’ and ‘Add articles’ allow you to search for articles already indexed by Google Scholar. If your search doesn’t find the publication, use ‘Add article manually’ and enter the bibliographic details yourself.