Research Guides: Graduate Student Research Support: Developing a Scholarly Identity

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While you are always welcome to ask the librarian who supports your department these types of questions, UCI Libraries has a Scholarly Communications Librarian who supports issues related to publishing, open acess, copyright, scholarly identity, institutional repository and more.

Mitchell Brown
Scholarly Communications Librarian

ORCID

ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.

ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from member organizations. Their vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.

With ORCID, you can establish:

The ORCID iD: a unique, persistent identifier free of charge to researchers
An ORCID record connected to the ORCID iD

It also offers a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as well as the services and support of communities of practice that enable interoperability between an ORCID record and member organizations so researchers can choose to allow connection of their iD with their affiliations and contributions.

Our Scholarly Communications Librarian, Mitchell Brown, has developed a support guide for ORCID, with tips on how to use your iD, privacy issues, and other FAQs.

ORCID Support Guide

Google Scholar Profile

If you conduct a search in Google Scholar, you'll notice some author names are linked, and some are not. The link will lead you to an Author Profile page, with name, title, contact information, a list of publications and the number of times those publications have been cited, and a few other analytics and links. Should you chose, you can also create an author profile.

Google Scholar

To create a profile, select the 3 bars in the upper left corner of Google Scholar's home page, or select My Profile. From there, there will be a few pages of fields you can fill out with whatever information you chose to share. Once you've created a profile, your name will be linked on Google Scholar results you've authored.