1. Everything You Should Know About Your Academic Identity Eileen Bentsen, Librarian Christina Chan-Park, Science Librarian Ellen Hampton Filgo, E-Learning Librarian Baylor University Libraries

2. What is “academic identity”? Today’s specific concern: your online academic profile Creating an academic identity can help to establish your voice & expertise Increase visibility of publications Find potential collaborators & co-authors Help get a job

3. What happens when you Google yourself? 1.Lots of people with your same name come up – Which one is you? 2.Stuff you wish people wouldn’t see about you comes up – Student rants from ratemyprofessor.com, your dead MySpace page, etc. 3.You, your research, your accomplishments

4. A word on self-promotion Reality: academia is still an old boys’ club Merit is important, but who you know is also important Managing and promoting your academic identity and accomplishments is a part of getting ahead It’s not pushy, it’s not arrogant.

5. Today’s Topics Names/Identity Academic Social Media Traditional Publication Metrics “Altmetrics”

6. Names/Identity Issues What name to publish under? Not a one-size fits all answer It’s usually best to stay consistent, but that’s not always possible, especially for women. Tools can help connect your research, whatever the name it was published under

7. Google Profiles http://profile.google.com http://scholar.google.com

8. Google Profiles

9. ORCID.org “ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.”

10. ORCID.org Resolves name disambiguation Ensures the correct attribution of scholarship Can be linked to unique IDs in other systems and automatically add new citations to the ORCID account. Can be integrated with and capture citations from non-traditional research artifacts, such as data sets. Integrated with an increasing number of publisher and grant agency submission systems

11. ORCID.org

12. Names/Identity Issues Get your own website.

13. Names/Identity Issues If you don’t have a professional website at your institution, create one for yourself. Cheap: Get a domain name and webhost – BlueHost, DreamHost, HostGator, Namecheap, etc. Cheap/free: Weebly, Squarespace, Wix Free: WordPress.com, Tumblr, about.me

14. Other “profile” sites About.me – Graduate student example Graduate student example – Researcher example Researcher example – Faculty example Faculty example

15. Facebook & Twitter Yes, it’s ok to have them.

16. LinkedIn

17. academia.edu

18. researchgate.net

19. Open Repositories

20. researchgate.net

21. Open Repositories

22. Traditional Bibliometrics Journal metrics Article metrics Author metrics Book metrics

23. Bibliometric Data

24. Journal Metrics Journal Citation Reports Impact Factor (2-year and 5-year) Immediacy Index Cited Half-Life SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) H index 2yr cites SJR indicator Eigenfactor Eigenfactor Article Influence

25. Article Metrics Journal Citation counts

26. Author Metrics Total number of papers Total citations Average citation H-index

27. Book Metrics Chapter DOIs Bibliographies Libraries – Reviews