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Research Support

At every stage of your research cycle, the EdUHK Library offers support to assist you.

Author Profiles

Having an author profile online can help to distinguish your research from others and showcase your scholarly contributions to the academic community. Author profiles are personal profiles that authors can create to showcase their works, achievements and expertise. Here are some key advantages of author profiles:

  1. Increase the visibility and discoverability of the author as the author's personal profiles can be searched in academic databases and search engines.
  2. Use the same profile in long-term even you change your name or institution.
  3. Incorporate metrics like citations, readership data, and social networks to demonstrate the influence of an author's research.
  4.  Allow authors to connect with other researchers and can facilitate collaborative opportunities

Here are some of the more commonly used author profiles and platforms, such as:

  • ORCID ID
  • Google Scholar Profile
  • Scopus Author ID
  • ResearcherID

Author Profiles and Platforms

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit organization that provides a unique identifier for individual researchers and an open system to help link research activities and output for researchers.

Benefits of ORCID:

  • Increases your research visibility
  • Connects your research to you throughout your career
  • Distinguishes you from other researchers with similar names
  • Minimizes the time you spend filling out forms when submitting research for publication or applying for grants
  • Is being required by major journal publishers and funding organization.

Google Scholar provides fundamental citation metrics for a wide range of scholarly resources, including books, book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, and even web-accessible dissertations. Through Google Scholar, you will be able to sign up for a Google Scholar Profile that will contain the information about your scholarly materials indexed in Google Scholar.

Here are the instructions to create your own Google Scholar profile:

  1. Go to https://scholar.google.com/ and click on My Profile at the top left corner of the window.
  2. You need to fill up some basic information about yourself, such as your name, affiliation, work email, research areas and personal websites. These information will become available on your Google Scholar Profile.
  3. You will be prompted to search for articles that you have written to add them to your profile.
  4. You can also make your profile public or private - a public profile is recommended so other researchers can find you.

Scopus Author Identifier is a unique identification number assigned to individual researchers and authors in the Scopus database. The Scopus Author Identifier provides a reliable way to consolidate an author's research output, citations, and h-index across multiple publications and collaborations. It helps researchers establish their scholarly identity and track the impact of their work within the Scopus database.

  1. Go to Scopus and search for any author by last name, first name or affiliation under Author Search.
  2. You can find the list of publications, citation counts and basic metrics. Your Scopus author profile ID can be found just under the
  3. profile name. You can also click on 'Connect to ORCID' to link your Scopus author ID to your ORCID iD.

Web of Science automatically creates a ResesarcherID that compiles the researchers' publications to avoid author misidentification on Web of Science. It also provides metrics such as the number of citing articles, h-index and citation counts. 

1. Go to Web of Science and search for any author by Last Name and First Name under Researcher Search:

2. Select the relevant author record by looking at the affiliations, list of recent publications and top journals:

3. At the profile page, you can find the Web of Science ResearcherID with other information, such as peer reviews, grant reviews, editorial board memberships, publication metrics (h-index, citing articles count, sum of times cited, peer review count), publication and peer review charts.