Impact of Social Sciences – What will the scholarly profile page of the future look like? Provision of metadata is enabling experimentation.

Impact of Social Sciences – What will the scholarly profile page of the future look like? Provision of metadata is enabling experimentation.
From multi-stakeholder platforms like ORCID, to commercial services like Google Scholar, academic profiles exist in a complex landscape of information flows. Lambert Heller provides an overview of the available scholarly profile pages and offers insight into their future development, which is set to be shaped by business models, technology, and available data streams.

We’re used to easily finding researchers’ profile pages on the web, often finding more than one for the same researcher. Especially for the new generation of researchers, accustomed to having every piece of their research online, these individual profiles make all kinds of sense: They make it easy to show one’s own efforts, maintain and present a network of related researchers, and reach out to collaborators and potential employers.