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

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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. Tools
ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
ResearchGate
LinkedIn

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

10. ORCiD - Easy to Setup

11. ORCiD - Fast-Growing

12. ORCiD - HUB

13. ORCiD - Automatic Updates

14. ResearchGate
Scholarly networking
Preprint uploads
Usage statistics

15. Usage statistics
Useful for demonstrating impact

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Questions?