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Research Profile & Citation Impact Guidance

Clean, complete and correctly attributed research profiles, a realistic plan to raise your citation impact, and metrics you can present with confidence.

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Overview

What this service covers

You have published, but your Google Scholar page shows half your papers, your Scopus record is split across two author IDs, and your h-index is lower than your actual work deserves. Or you are at the stage where a promotion, a grant or a fellowship asks for citation metrics, and you are not sure how to build them honestly. Impact can be grown — but only through visibility, discoverability and good publishing decisions, never through shortcuts that indexes are designed to detect.

Set up & clean profiles

We set up and clean your author profiles — Google Scholar, Scopus Author ID, ORCID, Web of Science ResearcherID and ResearchGate — so every paper is correctly attributed to one identity.

Merge duplicate records

We identify and merge duplicate Scopus author records and request corrections for missing or misattributed papers, so your h-index reflects your full output.

Audit the gaps

We audit your existing publications and citations and show you where the gaps are: papers not indexed, versions not linked, citations not captured.

Discoverability

We help you make your work discoverable — titles, abstracts and keywords written for search, and papers deposited in institutional repositories or preprint servers where the journal permits.

Impact over time

We guide you on publishing choices that build impact over time: review and bibliometric papers, indexed journals in your field, collaborations, and conference presentations that lead to citations.

Responsible self-citation

We advise on responsible self-citation and on building on your own earlier work without crossing into manipulation.

Present your metrics

We help you present your metrics correctly for appraisals, NAAC, NIRF, promotion files and grant applications, with the right explanation of what each figure means.

How We Work

A clear, guided process

  1. 01

    Set up

    We set up and clean your author profiles across Google Scholar, Scopus, ORCID, Web of Science and ResearchGate, so every paper is attributed to one identity.

  2. 02

    Merge & correct

    We merge duplicate Scopus author records and request corrections for missing or misattributed papers.

  3. 03

    Audit

    We audit your publications and citations and show you where the gaps are — papers not indexed, versions not linked, citations not captured.

  4. 04

    Grow

    We help you make work discoverable and guide publishing choices that build impact over time, with responsible self-citation.

  5. 05

    Present

    We help you present metrics correctly for appraisals, NAAC, NIRF, promotion files and grant applications.

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