A researcher profile is your individual, public profile of your professional work. It is a profile that you manage and use throughout your career.
Some of the benefits of a researcher profile include:
Learn more about researcher profiles in lesson 6 of our eLearning course, Get started with Publishing.
At Austin Health, we recommend you set up the following:
AHRO author profile
An AHRO author profile allows you to submit your work to Austin’s centralised repository. You can choose to add a biography, a profile picture, and link to ORCID and your other online accounts.
Download the instructions on how to create and manage your AHRO author profile.
An Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a free world-wide, unique, persistent identifier (PID). An ORCID lets you easily distinguish yourself from other researchers, even those with the same or similar names. It is quick and easy to create and use when submitting research outputs and funding applications. Learn more about, and create an ORCID
A Google Scholar profile is a personal webpage that displays information about your research, including articles that have been published and cited. Google Scholar also calculates the h-index and i10-index. Learn more about, and create a Google Scholar profile. Learn more about the h-index and how it is calculated.