1. Profiling Armen Yuri Gasparyan, MD, PhD, FESC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Member, World Association of Medical Editors

2. https://www. ncbi. nlm. nih

3. https://www. ncbi. nlm. nih

4. ORCID Launched in 2012 Free profile
Uniform Record Locators (URLs) or in a short form of 16 characters
4,682,649  iDs
Universal profile for authors, reviewers, editors and other scholars
Useful for name disambiguation (especially for non-Anglophone authors)
Integrated with Scopus
Includes biographical note, list of articles, links to Publons

7. Scopus Author Identifier
Automatic profiling platform of the largest bibliographic database
Integrated with ORCID
Linked to article-level altmetrics (PlumX)
H-index, total cites, total docs, annual papers/cites
Allows analyses within predefined timeframe (3-5 years)

9. ResearcherID Since 2008 (as a name disambiguation solution)
Profile for authors visible on Web of Science
Integrated with ORCID
Includes biographical note, list of articles
Inappropriately used by ‘predatory’ press
Lost its popularity

10. https://www. emeraldcityjournal

11. Analysis of 4,307 Norwegian researchers' profiles
ResearcherID was the least popular platform, with 130 ID holders (3%)
1,307 with ResearchGate (30%)
333 with Google Scholar (8%)

12. PubMed profile
Free, rapidly updated, primary research tool for biomedics
Based on MEDLINE and PubMed Central items
MEDLINE linked to MeSH vocabulary of NLM
No unique author identifiers
Profiling depends on correct author names and their affiliations
Helps to find peer reviewers
PubMed Central and ORCID are integrated
Assessing article-level Altmetrics through Bookmarklet

14. Google Scholar Citations
Free alternative to other global citation-tracking services
No validation
Tool for authors with at least 1 article, book, and non-reviewed sources
Helpful for authors poorly visible on Scopus and WoS (social scientists, non-Anglophone authors)
Profiles of deceased available
Profiles filled with photos, links to profiles of co-authors, h-indices
‘Predatory’ items is a big issue

16. ResearchGate
Largest social networking sites for researchers (>4.5 mln users)
Platform for sharing articles and interacting with potential collaborators, and discussion forum
Profiles incorporate photos, keywords, links to published articles
Individual archiving (CC lincenses considered) and citation tracking
RG score available for ranking
ResearchGate and Google Scholar cover the same items, with early archiving of pre-published articles on ResearchGate

18. 55 highly cited papers (from ESI)
107 researchers
64.5% were found in RG

19. Mendeley Since 2008 Owned by Elsevier (since 2013)
Reference management platform
Social networking for 6 mln users
Import documents from PubMed, ArXiv, Google
Linked to Altmetrics

20. IDEAS/RePEc Since 1997 Linked to AmEconAssoc EconLit database

21. Nature doi: /nature

22. Publons Launched in 2012 Acquired by Clarivate Analytics in 2017
>350,000 users, >25,000 journals covered
Free platform for users
Business model - partnership with publishers
Integrated with ORCID
Credits for reviewers who list their accomplishments (official responses from publishers are required for each post)
Helps editors to find best reviewers

23. Publons partners

24. Publons profiles

25. ReviewerCredits activities
Since 2016
5818 active users (32 from Russia)
Certification of reviewer activities
Certification of conference talks
Editing services through Enago

26. Conclusions
Several profiles linked to different databases are advisable
Profiling depends on users’ validation skills
Validation tools are required to avoid ‘predatory’ items
Profiles are used to choose peer reviewers