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Your public profile
What other researchers see: identity, badges, publications with search and sort, impact analytics, projects and groups — and exactly how each metric is computed.
The five tabs
- Overview — name, credentials, position and career stage, institution and location, ORCID, bio, interests, keywords, methods, languages and external links; headline metrics and the most recent papers; projects you share with the viewer.
- Publications — every claimed paper with search (title, author, journal, DOI), year and type filters and sorting by newest, most cited, title or recently claimed; each row links to the DOI and can be saved to your library.
- Impact — the metrics below, papers per year, citations per year, the citation distribution, top journals, frequent co-authors (co-authors with an account here link to their profile) and the most cited papers.
- Portfolio — the same claimed works as a one-page, print-ready research portfolio with a copyable public link.
- Projects & groups — the projects and groups this researcher belongs to that you are allowed to see.
How each metric is computed
Every citation number on the profile, the Portfolio tab, Settings → Publications and the CV comes from one shared definition, so the same person can never show two different totals.
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| Publications | Papers claimed on this profile. |
| Total citations | The sum of each claimed paper's own citation count. Each paper keeps the highest count reported by OpenAlex or Crossref. Where not one paper has a count yet, the author-level total from a linked ORCID record is shown instead and labelled as such. |
| Citations per paper | Total citations ÷ publications, to one decimal. |
| h-index | The largest h for which h claimed papers have at least h citations each. |
| i10-index | Claimed papers with ten or more citations. |
| Active since / active years | The earliest publication year, and the span from the earliest to the latest. |
Each card says where its number came from — "from 56 papers" or "author-level count from OpenAlex". When citation counts have not been fetched yet the h-index and i10-index show "—", never 0, with a link to refresh them; when only some papers have counts the profile says so and treats the totals as a lower bound.
Refresh citation counts from Settings → Publications after claiming new papers. The refresh also corrects the journal of papers that were listed under a repository such as figshare, bioRxiv or SSRN.
Who sees what
Profile visibility (public, members only, private) is set in Settings → Profile, as is who may message you. Private projects and groups only appear to people who share them. Followers and following lists open from the counters under the header.
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