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Faculty Scholarship Resources

Collected resources and points of contact for various subjects related to faculty scholarship, including faculty profiles, identity disambiguation, author rights and copyright, and scholarly metrics.

Strategies For Managing Your Metrics

Numbered list of steps 1 through 3, represented by web buttons that read: Claim, Curate, Maintain.

Google Scholar

Claiming your Google Scholar profile

The first step is to create a Google account. It is recommended that you use a personal Google account rather than one that was issued by your home institution so that you can maintain access if you take a position at a new institution. Go to Google Scholar. Enter your information. On the next page you will be shown citations that Google Scholar located using your name.  

You can find more information about Scholar profile setup on the Google Scholar website.

Curating your Google Scholar profile

Review your publications results list as generated by Google for accuracy and completion. If publications are missing, you can add their metadata manually. You will do this on Google Scholar, so that you can then export a BibTeX file that can be used to upload your citations to your ORCID profile. 

You can find more information about curating your citations on Google Scholar on their website. 

Exporting your publications

If you would like to use the metadata for your citations from Google Scholar to populate other academic profiles such as OrcID, you can export your citations as a BibTeX file. This file can then be uploaded to OrcID to populate that profile. 

Export BibTeX from Google Scholar instructional video

Export to BibTeX from Google Scholar instructions

ORCID

Getting started with ORCID

ORCiD is a nonprofit organization that provides unique, persistent identifiers to academics and researchers that can be used to connect their scholarship and academic identity across platforms and publications.

Trusted Individuals

To add a trusted individual, such as an assistant or law librarian, to your ORCID profile, please see this guide on the ORCiD knowledgebase. This will allow the individual to curate and maintain your ORCID profile, adding biographical and professional information, and curating details of your scholarly output.

SSRN

Getting Started on SSRN

UM Law collects the early scholarship of our faculty on SSRN in the University of Miami School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series. To have your scholarship collected into this journal, please be sure to select this series from the eJournal Classifications during the paper submission process. You can find more information about sharing your scholarship on SSRN on the Sharing Your Scholarship page of this guide.

PlumX Metrics on SSRN

PlumX Metrics are available on SSRN Abstract Pages. For more information, see the SSRN Knowledgebase page about PlumX. For more about PlumX Analytics, see the PlumX website (these analytics are also used in our institutional repository and on many other research-sharing services).