Yale University Library Research Guides: Research Impact: Broadening your impact

Managing your identity

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New forms of scholarly publication

Connecting with the research community

Managing your identity

Distinguish yourself by disambiguating your name.

ORCID
Provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
ResearcherID
A unique identifier that allows researchers to manage their publication lists and avoid author misidentification.
ISNI
ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more.

ImpactStory
An open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software.
Plum Analytics
This service aims to provide a more comprehensive measure of scholarly impact by gathering data about usage of data sets, open access publications, presentations, blogs and other types of scholarly communication.

Researchers can share their work in a variety of non-traditional ways online.

Figshare
Figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.
SlideShare
This free online tool for uploading and sharing slide presentations can also track the number of downloads as an alternative measure of research impact.
Vimeo
Vimeo is a free online service for sharing and uploading video content.
WordPress
Free web-based software for creating blogs and websites
Twitter
Twitter allows sharing links and short messages with a large online community. Frequently, Twitter is used as a communication tool within research communities and as a tool to connect with potential collaborators at professional conferences and meetings.

Academia.edu
Online platform allowing researchers to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
LinkedIn
Large online social networking tool for professionals in all fields
Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
ResearchGate
Another large social networking platform facilitates sharing research and connecting researchers around the world
ScientistsDB
Provides bios and a photos of researchers from all fields and helps connect scientists for collaboration.
VIVO
VIVO enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. Participants in the network include institutions with local installations of VIVO or those with research discovery and profiling applications that can provide semantic web-compliant data. The information accessible through VIVO's search and browse capability will reside and be controlled locally, within institutional VIVOs or other semantic web-compliant applications.