Establishing Your Scholarly Identity as a Graduate Student Dr. Kathy Anders Dr. Dong Joon Lee

Overview What is scholarly identity? Why do we care? How do we use tools to enhance/create scholarly identity?

What is scholarly identity? Who are you as a scholar? What do you do? Impact How influential are you? How often is your work cited? How important is it to the field? Reputation How do other view you and your work?

Why be concerned with your scholarly identity? The more academics know who you are, the more of a reputation you develop, the more of a reputation you develop, the more desirable you are Universities are increasingly thinking about commodified value, impact, and brand Important for getting jobs, as well as promotion and tenure

Why people use scholarly identity management systems? Find relevant literature Document and verify sources Identify collaborators, students, advisors, reviewers, etc. Disseminate your works Interact with peers Monitor the literature (e.g., follow or discover people and papers) Evaluate people and works Add and modify metadata about you and your works Look for jobs

Frame your identity in terms of your goals Your career goals should shape your scholarly identity Moving into Ph.D. programs, academia, or industry Consider your audience

Discussion What are your career goals? What types of work do you think you will produce at TAMU?

Tools ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) ResearchGate LinkedIn

ORCiD Unique identifier for researchers Disambiguation Ingestion into other systems Non-profit Link to your dissertation or thesis

ORCiD - Easy to Setup

ORCiD - Fast-Growing

ORCiD - HUB

ORCiD - Automatic Updates

ResearchGate Scholarly networking Preprint uploads Usage statistics

Usage statistics Useful for demonstrating impact

LinkedIn Networking site for industry Does not track scholarly stats Useful for making connections

Tips for creating industry profiles Consider your audience! Not all profiles should look the same – academic will look different than business Reduce jargon Focus on skills Make your work relatable Proofread

Takeaways Start thinking about what type of scholar you want to be Figure out what materials you can share to let people know about your research Start developing your scholarly identity now so that your reputation can grow

Questions?