What are researcher profiles?
The researcher's profile is a personal account in a certain web environment, database or application that allows to manage the scientific signature (name and surname, institutional affiliation) and facilitates the research activity by enabling:
- Gather all your scientific production by grouping the different publications that present variants of your name.
- Unify your signature as a researcher, with the chosen form (it is recommended to use the FECYT guidelines).
- Facilitate the compilation of received citations and the calculation of the H index.
- Make it easier for funding agencies to make decisions.
- Give greater visibility and dissemination to your scientific production.
There are profiles that are updated by the researcher or others that are automatically created from their publications.
1. Updated by the researcher and created, in most cases, by him/herself:
- OrcID: is created by filling out the form and allows the import of bibliographic references from multiple platforms.
- Web of Science Researcher profile: The profile can now be created from the WoS home page.
- Google Academic / Google Scholar: it is created by the author based on his works indexed in this database.
2. Automatically created and updated (the researcher must check the data and request, if necessary, corrections):
