Researcher profiles

As a researcher, there are many external services to have an account with, and all of them promise advantages, be it greater insights into your citations and impact, easier access to your grants and awards, or full overviews over your publishing history.

Generally, researcher profiles can greatly help increase your visibility, making it easier to connect with like-minded colleagues for future projects.

The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers states that researchers must “build a portfolio of evidence demonstrating their experience, that can be used to support job applications”. A comprehensive researcher profile can support this responsibility.

Developing your researcher profiles

Take the Nature Masterclass self-led course in Building a Strong Online Researcher Profile to build and optimise your online researcher profile(s).

Watch the 40-minute (or relevant chapters) Making an Impact 2024 session 'Your Researcher Profile: How to Maximise Impact with Metrics' organised by The Academy.

Connecting your researcher profiles

Visit the pages below to learn more about these common researcher profiles and how to connect them.

ORCID

ORCID

ORCID IDs are for researchers what ISBNs are for books.

Liverpool Elements

Liverpool Elements

Liverpool Elements is the internal system that is the single point of truth for all other internal profiles.

Scopus / SciVal

Scopus/SciVal

Scopus is a large index database that hosts information on a large number of journals.

ResearchGate

ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a for-profit social networking platform to connect with colleagues and engage in discussion.