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Research Impact Challenge: Bonus Challenges

This guide contains a set of challenges to help York researchers improve the discoverability of their research and scholarly outputs.

Discover York Academics landing page with a search box and the following text, "Connect with researchers, scholars and creators at York University. Access their expertise via search by name, subject or topic."

Bonus Challenge for Faculty: Connect your ORCID iD to your Discover York Academics (DYA) Profile

What is DYA? DYA is York's electronic curriculum vitae (eCV) tool for York faculty, librarians and archivists. Faculty can easily manage, store and share research, publications, scholarly and creative works, grants and other teaching and professional activities with DYA.

Features of DYA

  • Users maintain full control of their profile, including which information they make public or private.  
  • DYA automatically aggregates your research outputs from public sites such as Scopus, which makes it easier to add your publications to your profile.
  • Provides opportunities to enhance your online academic presence, as well as connect and collaborate with other researchers.

DYA’s User Interface & Help Resources

  • To populate your DYA profile, sign-in to the user interface (Passport York protected).
  • York has a variety of help resources to support you with populating your profile on the YULink DYA Resource Site (Passport York protected).

DYA’s Public Website & Its Benefits

  • When you are ready to make your DYA profile public, it will be listed on the public-facing DYA site.
  • The public site allows users to search and view public faculty profiles, helping to make your research and expertise more discoverable!

Connecting Your ORCID iD to Your DYA Profile

Some of the benefits of connecting your ORCID iD include:

  • DYA will treat your ORCID iD as a source of publications and other data for your DYA profile.
  • DYA will only transfer content that has been marked as ‘public’ or ‘read-limited’ by you in your ORCID iD. It will not transfer content that you have marked as ‘private’ in ORCID.

Questions about DYA? Email dyahelp@yorku.ca with your questions or fill out the DYA Team’s User Experience form.

What is a Google Scholar profile? Google Scholar is a popular tool used by academics to find and locate academic research, but did you know that Google Scholar can also create profiles for researchers? By creating your Google Scholar profile, you’ll be able to tailor your profile and help improve your research discoverability.

Benefits of creating Google Scholar profile

  • Because Google Scholar is free to use, you can access your profile throughout your academic career without requiring a subscription.
  • Claiming your profile allows you to improve the search engine optimization of your scholarly outputs and track citations to your works.

Getting Started: Create your Profile

  • Go to Google Scholar. In the upper right corner, click Sign in. Please note, you’ll need to have a gmail account to login. In the upper left corner, click My Profile.

Google Scholar landing page with 'Sign in' and 'My profile' options highlighted.

  • On the next page, you can add variations of your name, affiliation information, university email address, areas of interest, and homepage (if applicable). After you have completed the fields, click the blue Next button. Congrats! You’ve now created a basic profile.

Google Scholar profile page. The form asks you to add variants of your name, your affiliation, your email for verification, areas of interest, and your homepage (if applicable). The blue next button at the bottom of the page is highlighted.

Advanced: Add Your Publications & Configure Settings

  • It is likely that Google Scholar has already indexed some of your published works. They will provide you with a list of publications that may belong to you. Read the list of items carefully and select which ones belong to you.
  • If you have a common name, Google Scholar will likely suggest works not written by you.
  • After you add your publications, you’ll be asked to configure the following settings:
    • Article updates: Check-off the ‘Apply updates automatically’ box to allow Google Scholar to make automatic updates to your profile or check-off the ‘Email me updates for review’ box to ensure you review any potential changes to your profile.  
    • Profile visibility: Check-off the ‘Make my profile public’ box to ensure your profile is public.
    • Follow by email: Check-off the ‘New articles related to my research’ box and the ‘New citations to my articles’ box to receive email notifications for either of these items.
  • Click the blue Done button to apply your settings.

The settings page for a Google Scholar profile. The following options have been selected: 'email me updates for review'; 'make my profile public', 'follow by email - new articles related to my research; new citations to my articles'. The blue done button is highlighted.

Additional Features

  • Consider adding co-authors to your profile. This resource has additional details.
  • Consider adding a picture to your profile.
  • Consider adding a link to your Google Scholar profile in your ORCID iD.

Need additional help? Reach out to metrics@yorku.ca for help with creating a Google Scholar profile.