Toolbox for Authors: Writing and Sharing Your Research
Looking for tips and resources for writing? Explore these suggestions from the WBG Library staff. (Where noted, licensed resources and Intranet pages are available for WBG staff only. Some suggestions may require additional licensing)
Author AID is a free pioneering global network that provides support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in low and middle income countries.
ORCID is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher. It addresses the name ambiguity problem that arises from name change, cultural differences in name order, and inconsistent use of first name abbreviations and different writing systems.
Lens Profiles are composite author/inventor profiles based on ORCID records and enhanced with aggregated data from various sources. Easily find and claim additional works or patents in the Lens and sync these with your ORCID Record.
Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. You can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
Thousands of conversations about scholarly content happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping you to monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work you care about.
When available, Altmetric badges and online activity are displayed for World Bank Publications in the Open Knowledge Repository, World Bank eLibrary, and Document and Reports. Badges and online activity are aggregated across all repositories, with each one displaying the same badge at any given time. Blog post: "Understanding the Impact of Bank Research through Alternative Metrics -- Resources"
Citations in Economics provides citation analysis for documents distributed on the RePEc digital library. For each document made available in electronic format CitEc automatically extracst and parses its list of references. It indicates which documents have been cited, how many times, and in which documents they have been cited.
Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than a billion citations, supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents.
Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. You can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
The Lens serves global patent and scholarly knowledge as a public resource to make science- and technology-enabled problem solving more effective, efficient and inclusive.
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre. Coverage: October 1993 to the present.
Citation Gecko is a new free online app that helps you find the most relevant papers to your research and gives you a “complete sense of the research landscape.” You start from a small set of seed papers that define an area you are interested in and then Gecko will search the citation network for connected papers, allowing you to quickly identify important papers you may have missed. Try it!
