Research Impact Factors

Your researcher profile is an individual Internet profile that provides a user friendly and efficient way of showcasing your work. 

Having a unique profile:

• Showcases your work to the world
• Manages your publications list
• Helps to be identified by potential collaborators
• Helps to avoid misidentification
• Enables your research output to be attributed to UC
• Tracks citation counts
• Enhances your UC researcher profile page by including a link to other profiles

Unique author identifiers are useful for the following reasons:

1. Researchers want to find potential collaborators, and want an easier way to get credit for their scholarly activities
2. Institutions want to collect, showcase and evaluate the scholarly activities of their faculty
3. Publishers want to simplify the publishing workflow, including peer review
4. Funding organizations want to simplify the grant submission workflow and want to track what happened to the research they funded
5. Scholarly societies want an easier way to track the achievements of their members

In an increasingly competitive research and scholarship environment, how do you distinguish yourself from someone? If your institutional affiliation and/or contact information changes, how is the link between you and your scholarly work maintained? The solution is creating a researcher profile.

A profile pulls all your research and publications together in one place, mitigating common problems that often arise in searching.  Such problems can include variations in authors' names or difficulty in narrowing a search down easily when an author has a common name.

If a researcher has worked with multiple granting agencies, research groups, or institutions, a research profile will also make their research easier to find.