Google Scholar
Setting up a Google Scholar profile is simple and offers several benefits for researchers and academics. First, it enhances your online presence and visibility, making it easier for colleagues and potential collaborators to find and connect with you. In addition, it allows you to track citations of your work, providing valuable insights into the impact and reach of your scholarship.
Creating Your Google Scholar Profile
Google Scholar provides a comprehensive set of instructions outlining how you can set up your profile. These instructions also explain how you can add missing articles or remove ones that are included by mistake.
Deciphering the Information on Your Author Profile Page
Once you've set up your profile, you'll be able to view the list of your articles and obtain citation data. The available data include the total number of for your works both in the last five years and since publication, the number of citations each individual scholarly work receives, and the h-index. See the Google Scholar Citations page for more information about the available data.
HeinOnline
Each individual who authors an article available in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library is automatically given an author profile page. You can, however, add additional information to your profile to make it more robust. This includes adding a photo, email address, title, university affiliation, ORCID iD, bio, and links to social media profiles. Instructions on how to edit your author profile page are available here. The law library is also able to update accounts on behalf of law school faculty. If you would like assistance updating your profile, send an email to lawref@uw.edu.
Finding Your Author Profile Page
To find your author profile, (1) go to the advanced search page, (2) search for your name under the Author/Creator field, and (3) select the hyperlink of your name from the results list.
SSRN
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a huge open-access repository for scholarly papers in law, the social sciences, business, and some other disciplines. Hundreds of thousands of authors have posted abstracts and papers.
Your author profile on SSRN is automatically created when you have a paper or abstract posted to the site. The basic author profile includes your name, affiliation, email address (if publicly available), and list of papers on SSRN. You can edit the information in your author profile by logging into your account and clicking on the "Account Settings"
If you would like to add additional identifying information, a picture, connect your account with an ORCID iD, or control whether or not your ranking information is displayed, click on the user account circle in the top right-hand corner of the page and select "My Account". If do not yet have an SSRN account, you can create one by clicking on the "Create account" button in the top right corner of the homepage.
Creating an account also enables you to post your own papers and subscribe to eJournals (free and fee-based).
Information on posting papers to SSRN, including a handy cheat sheet, is available here.
ORCID
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers for researchers. The idea is that by attaching your unique identifier to your scholarship, you can ensure that all of your work will be attributed to you, regardless of name variations or publications by other scholars with the same name.
To get started, register for an ORCID iD. Once you are registered, you can link your ORCID iD to your HeinOnline, Google Scholar, and SSRN profiles to uniquely identify your work product.