Researcher profiles and identifiers help showcase your research.

Useful for

  • Keeping your name and affiliations updated.
  • Highlighting your research outputs, citation metrics and career achievements.
  • Increasing the potential to build collaboration networks.
  • Streamlining processes, such as applying for funding.

Promote your research

  • Add profiles to your email signature.
  • Connect and network with others.
  • Join the conversation on social media.

Build your profile

Benefits:

  • Griffith University's official public profile system
  • showcases your grants, teaching and professional activities
  • targets external audiences, for example, HDR candidates, government or media seeking expertise.

Available for:

  • All paid academic staff, excluding casuals.
  • Paid Research Fellows.
  • Professors Emeriti.

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Build your publication record

Enhance your profile

  • Add a photo and short biography.
  • Add a teaching summary and research interests.
  • Add links to other profiles.
  • Add professional activities.

Reach your audience

  • Deposit outputs to GRO.
  • Deposit creative works to the Creative Works platform.

Connect Elements with:

  • ORCiD —to keep your ORCiD up to date.
  • Scopus Author ID and Web of Science author profile —to help Elements find your outputs.

Symplectic Elements is the data source for Griffith Experts.

Symplectic Elements guides

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Benefits:

  • distinguishes you from others with the same name
  • easily control and share your data
  • used by publishers and funding organisations.

Make this your main profile if you are sessional, casual or a HDR candidate.

Available for:

  • all researchers.

Access ORCiD

Step 1.

  • Create your account.
  • Make your profile public.
  • Add your research outputs.

Step 2.

  • Add your Griffith affiliation.
  • Add name variants.
  • Add additional email addresses.
  • Configure Elements to update your ORCiD record.

Step 3.

  • Add ORCiD to your email signature.
  • Link existing profiles to your record.

Connect ORCiD with:

  • Symplectic Elements—to allow updates to your publication list.
  • Scopus Author ID —to import your Author ID and publications.
  • Web of Science—to import your Researcher ID and publications.

View ORCiD support

Benefits:

  • assigned automatically
  • provides citation metrics
  • analyse and visualise your publications record.

Available for:

  • researchers with indexed outputs.

Access Scopus author search

Step 1.

  • Find your author profile.
  • Check for multiple profiles and merge together.

Step 2.

  • Verify your outputs, add or remove if relevant.
  • Connect your ORCiD .

Step 3.

Connect Scopus with:

  • Symplectic Elements—to help Elements find your outputs.
  • ORCiD —to help find your outputs.

View Scopus author guides

Benefits:

  • assigned automatically
  • claim and import publications
  • provides citation metrics
  • features author Beamplot visualisation tool
  • explore insights in your publications and citations
  • showcase your peer review and journal editing work.

Available for:

  • researchers with indexed outputs.

Access Web of Science

Step 1.

  • Check for multiple profiles, select and View combined profile.
  • Claim your author record.

Step 2.

  • Check and verify outputs.

Step 3.

Connect Web of Science with:

  • Symplectic Elements—to help Elements find your outputs.
  • ORCiD —to help Web of Science find your outputs.

View Web of Science guides

Benefits:

  • easy to use and maintain
  • includes grey literature
  • provides citation metrics, including h-index
  • reveals co-authorship networks.

Available for:

  • all researchers.

Access Google Scholar

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Step 1.

  • Create an account.
  • Make your profile public.
  • Add outputs.

Step 2.

  • Manually add missing outputs.
  • Remove incorrectly attributed outputs.
  • Make updates.

Step 3.

  • Add areas of interest.
  • Add co-authors.

Research metrics

Keep profiles up-to-date to assist with metrics calculations to support grant and promotion applications.

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