Researcher profiles and your ORCID (online)

Your name is not always a reliable way for the world to identify your research - names repeat, they change, and the systems that index scholarly work get confused. Researcher profiles fix that, and most of them are created for you automatically, whether you know about them or not.

This session introduces the researcher profile landscape at Manchester and beyond: Pure, ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and Google Scholar. It explains which profiles are created for you and which you create yourself, how they connect to each other, and what each one needs from you.

The practical core of the session is setting up your ORCID from within Pure, which is a key PGR progression task, and knowing where to find the guidance to finish the job in your own time.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Explain what researcher profiles are and why maintaining an accurate research identity matters.
• Understand the role of key researcher profile systems, including ORCID, Pure, Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and Google Scholar.
• Distinguish between profiles that are created automatically and those you create and manage yourself.
• Create or connect an ORCID through Pure and understand its role in PGR progression.
• Identify where to find, check and maintain your researcher profiles across major scholarly systems.

Intended audience

Staff and postgraduate researchers producing research outputs.

How to book on

This event will take place online via Teams. Booking onto the event is essential to receive the link to join.

Further support

Talk to us online via the 24-hour Library Chat service. Alternatively, you can email us for advice or to book one-to-one appointments at uml.teachingandlearning@manchester.ac.uk.

Find out more about the workshops and online resources offered by My Research Essentials on the library webpage. Online resources related to this workshop include:

• Raising awareness of your research