The three Institutional Profiles

Researchers at the UMCG will get three institutional profile pages. These pages are very well found by Google, so it is good to have them up to date. You might not know that these profile pages exist, but people are finding them.

Are all your (research) profile pages up to date? We can help & check it for you! E-mail us: pure@umcg.nl!

1. University of Groningen employee page (MePa)

University of Groningen employee page (MePa)

To edit your University Profile Page you need to hold a non-salaried position ("gastvrijheids-aanstelling") at the University of Groningen and a so called P-number. Please check whether you already have a MePa by searching your name on the RUG employees search menu. This profile page in Dutch is called the "medewerkerspagina" or MePa for short.

For UMCG researchers it is not always automated that a profile is created. If you don't have a MePa contact the Central Medical Library at pure@umcg.nl and we will put in a request to create a profile page.

If you already have a MePa you can follow these steps to edit the page:

Go to My University and log in with your University's P-number.
In the top right click your name and 'view your profile page'
On your profile page you should now see an 'Edit' button.

Note: All data under the "Research" tab comes directly from our research database Pure.

To show your ORCID on your MePa: First make sure it is registered in Pure and second; in the MePa editor click on Links (in the profile tab) and set "Show ORCID" to Yes.

If you have Projects registered in Pure you can also show those on your MePa by going to "Projects" and clicking the "Show projects from Pure on this Page".

2. Research Portal profile

Research Portal Profile

A profile on the Research portal is (in most cases) automatically made when you register research output in our research database Pure. The profile on the Research Portal shows everything that is registered in Pure.

If you don't have a profile on the research portal this could be two reasons:

You don't have any research output registered in Pure
- To solve this: Either enter your research output to Pure yourself or ask the Central Medical Library to do it via pure@umcg.nl
You have research output in Pure, but your profile is set to "Back-end".
- To solve this: In Pure, go to 'Edit Profile', scroll all the way down and under visibility change "Back-End" to "Public". Your profile on the research portal should then almost immediately be available.

Everything on this profile page can be edited in Pure. If you have any questions or need support contact us at pure@umcg.nl

3. UMCG Researcher profile

UMCG Researcher Profile

The UMCG also makes researcher profiles on their research website. You can't edit this page yourself (yet), this is something the UMCG webteam needs to do. You can send your changes to webteam@umcg.nl and they will edit your profile page!

Your research output and research activities can be shown on this profile page automatically from Pure. For this connection to work you need to have an ORCID registered in Pure.

Other profile pages

Enhance your visibility with your Scopus Author ID

The Scopus Author ID helps author recognition and disambiguation when searching publications. Many researchers already have a Scopus ID without realising it. By checking the correctness of publications assigned to your Scopus Author ID, you will certainly help others finding your publications. It will also improve completeness and correctness of citation analyses.

Go to Scopus and use the author search tab to search for your own name
Check if all publications assigned to you are correct and if there are no variants of your name that are not yet grouped to your main entry.
If there are ungrouped name variants with your publications send Scopus feedback by checking name variants and clicking "request to merge authors" on top of the results list. (For that it may be required to create a personal account within the institutional license).

Enhance your visibility with ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is unique and permanent identifier for researchers. It distinguishes you from other researchers and connects you with your research publications and professional activities. It is strategically important because it enables all databases to automatically link publications to you by your ORCID. An ORCID iD is free, easy to get and stays with you throughout your academic career.

Read more about ORCID and how to create an ORCID iD in our Researchers Guide

Enhance your visibility with a Researcher ID

ResearcherID is the profile tool from Web of Science. ResearcherID offers a public profile. You can choose what to show publicly. ResearcherID is also important as a basis to provide feedback to Web of Science for grouping author name variants or corrections to affiliations.

Go to Researcher ID, sign up and complete your profile.
Add some publications if you have a few listed in Web of Science and preview the public version of your profile.
If you already have made an ORCID ID you can link Researcher ID to that. It is best to do that in a place where you have access to Web of Science.

Enhance your visibility with ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a very large researcher community linking researchers around topics. It is frequently used to ask questions to collegues all over the world that have the same set of interests and specialisations. You can choose which topics or researchers to follow. You can automatically populate your publications list or add items from reference management tools or add manually. You can even upload and share full text publications (e.g. last author versions that many publishers allow you to share).

Go to Researchgate, sign up and complete your profile with whatever you think relevant.
Add your publications by clicking "Add Publications" and choosing "Author Match".
Select topics to follow if you want

Enhance your visibility with Academia

Academia is a large researcher community. Just as ResearchGate it connects scholars around topics. You can add papers through a built in search using Microsoft Academic, PubMed and ArXiv. You can also add ful text. The process is easy, but the coverage not as comprehensive as Google Scholar.

Go to Academia.edu and sign up.
Add publications/papers by clicking your name top right, then "add papers"and "import"
Find a few people in your field to follow

Enhance your visibility in Google Scholar

Google Scholar is by far the most widely used bibliographical tool for scholarly publications. You can enhance your findability by creating an account and telling Google which publications in their database are yours. After taking the steps below, searches on your name will show your profile on top of the results. The profile itself shows your list of publications in Google Scholar with basic metrics. Besides journal papers, it may also include books and reports.

First, create a Google account
Go to Google Scholar, make sure you are logged in and click "My Citations"
Follow instructions to create your profile and add or remove publications that are yours or not yours

Questions? Ask us! (Impact)

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UMCG RESEARCH PORTAL PROFILEs

(The first number indicates the number of researcher profiles connected to the Institute or programme on May 7 2025 last check.
Red means: It's not the same as in Pure currently.
The second number shows the current members of the Institute or Programme according to Pure. )

Health in Context Research Institute (40 / 316)