8 Build an Online Scholarly Identity: Using Google Scholar and your DOI
What is a Scholarly Identity?
Your scholarly identity is what you want people—fellow researchers, students, or potential employers—to find when they search for you online. This may include your:
- Presentations and publications
- Fellowships and grants
- Courses taught
- Research interests
It is essentially your online curriculum vitae or resume. It’s up to you whether or not you manage this identity, but regardless of whether you manage it, it exists.
Create a Google Scholar Identity and Profile
Google Scholar profiles are one of the most common tools used by researchers to track their citations, h-index, or i10-index, find links to their published works, and receive alerts about new citations. If you’re gathering article or book metrics for your promotion & tenure dossier, a Google Scholar profile will be the first step in locating that information.The video below from the University of Houston Libraries will walk you through the steps of setting up a Google Scholar profile.After following these steps, we recommend that you set your profile so that it does NOT automatically update (see below). This will keep your profile from being accidentally populated with citations to work that is not your own.