How to enhance your profile on academic portals, social media, and personal websites?

Abstract

With the advent of online publication and indexing of articles in online databases, author profiling became an inseparable part of the publication. Although databases such as PubMed Central and Scopus maintain an author profile for their internal records, it is inadequate to reflect all the publications of an author. Hence, an author can open accounts in various academic portals for enlisting the publication, conference, achievements, and make a connection with researchers for collaborative work. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn can also be used for the dissemination of current research knowledge and make a network of professionals. In addition, personal websites and blog posts can also augment the credible presence of an author. In this review article, we describe how to enhance the online profile of an author in academic portals, social media, and personal websites.