LUT guide to publishing: Researcher Profiles and Networks

After publishing an article, you'll have several options to enhance your articles visibility and findability. 

If the article is not available open access, it can be parallel published in LUTPub. In addition, the so-called Social networking sites for researchers such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu can be used for sharing your research outputs and discussing on research related issues with other researchers. If you intend to upload your article to a social networking site, remember to first check for example in the SHERPA/RoMEO database whether the publisher of the article permits this, and if they do, on what conditions.

With a personal researcher profile, you'll get a personal research identifier linking you to your publications with higher accuracy, avoiding the problems caused by spelling differences or mix-ups with similar names. 

The International Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID iD) is a permanent and unique identifier issued to individual researchers. At present, ORCID is the most established and widely used system for identifying researchers worldwide. ORCID is the register for permanent digital researcher identifiers. It is open, public, international and community-based. ORCID is an independent non-profit organization.

• ORCID
  To create your own profile you must first register to ORCID and get an ORCID iD. Use your iD, when prompted, in systems and platforms from grant application to manuscript submission and beyond, to ensure you get credit for your contributions. 
  
  The ORCID iD serves as an identification method for the Finnish research.fi service, and the identifier can be used to link all research outputs included in the Research Information Hub to their respective authors. In research.fi, ORCID identifier is necessary for all the researchers.
  
  From ORCID, you can export publication data to LUT Research Portal

• Scopus Author ID
  Profiles are created automatically when two or more articles are linked to one profile. If needed, corrections can be requested via Scopus Author Feedback Wizard, including the ability to:

  - Set a preferred name
  - Merge profiles
  - Add and remove documents
  - Update affiliation

• Web of Science Researcher Profile
  Sign up and create profile, no subscription needed. With a profile, you can collect your publications and monitor your citation metrics and display your peer review and journal editing work.
   
• Google Scholar Profiles
  Creating Google Profile, a researcher can collect all their articles found in Google Scholar to their My Profile page. With a profile, you can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
   

Being active in social media can bring several advantages to a researcher: you can network, join discussion and let others know about your own work. In order to get the best out of social media, it is useful to familiarize with different social media platforms and consider the pros and cons of each. Think over how much you will be able to put your time and effort to different channels. It is also good to be prepared for the downside of social media: what if you and your work suddenly get targeted with negative feedback or, even worse, hate speech?

Responsible Research -website has several articles on the topic of scientific communication and social media that are worth the read.