Author Profile of Scientific-Pedagogical Worker as Business Card on the Internet

Abstract

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the problem of creation and up-to-date support of author profiles on the Internet by scientific-pedagogical workers of higher education institutions. It has been emphasized that the Internet is a powerful resource and a unique way of scientific communication of scientific-pedagogical workers since the Internet space is developing as a special field of virtual science today. The works of scientists, which consider the problem of creating author profiles for the development of information and research competence of scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers have been analysed. Peculiarities of creating author profiles in some databases and assigning authors’ unique author’s identifier (ID) have been studied. Websites and scientific portals where scientific-pedagogical workers can post information about themselves and their scientific achievements has been considered: Google Scholar service «Bibliographic References», Publons, ORCID, ResearchGate and others. It has been stated that the creation and management of scientific-pedagogical workers’ author profiles on the Internet allows monitoring the scientometric indicators of their activity: the citation index, the average citation rate, and the Hirsch index (h-index). It has been concluded that the creation and maintenance of author profiles on the Internet is the duty of every scientific-pedagogical worker.