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Profiles and following

Public researcher pages with publications, metrics and badges; follow colleagues and control who sees what.

Updated 2026-09-05

Your public page

Name, credentials, position, institution, location, bio, research interests, methods, languages and links, plus impact (publications, citations, h-index, projects, collaborators) and badges computed from your activity (collaborator, prolific researcher, highly cited, rising scholar, mentor, peer reviewer, community builder, ORCID linked).

Who can see it

SettingAudience
Anyone with the linkPublic, including people without an account
Signed-in researchersAny account holder
Only you and people you work withMembers of projects you share

Open-to flags (collaboration, mentoring, reviewing) are shown as chips so the right people reach out.

Following

Follow a researcher to be notified when they publish or join projects you can see, and to allow them to message you when your contact preference is “people I follow”. Followers and following lists are visible on the profile.

Publications and metrics

Claim papers by DOI or PubMed ID, by name or ORCID iD, or import them from ORCID. Citations, the h-index and the i10-index are computed from the claimed papers’ own citation counts (the higher of what OpenAlex and Crossref report for each paper); an author-level total is used only when no paper has a count yet, and every card says which. Refresh the counts from Settings → Publications.

A metric shown as “—” means the citation counts have not been fetched yet, not that the number is zero.

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