FAQs in using the Scholars Page

Scholars please click on ‘Login With UMPASS’ at the top right corner of the Scholars Page home page and use the UMPASS account to log in.

Faculty admin staffs can click ‘Log In’ in the upper right corner of the Scholars Page home page and use their administrator account to log in.

Scopus ID is empty, the FWCI value is retrieved based on the Scopus ID added by the scholar. The specific operation of adding Scopus ID is:

Enter into “My Workspace”, click “Edit Profile”, then enter your Scopus ID, it shows as follows:

The automatic retrieval and update of FWCI starts at 12:15 PM every day.

For example, if you add Scopus ID at 5:00 pm, you will see the FWCI value after 12:15PM the next day.

Enter into https://www.scopus.com/search/form.uri?display=basic#author ,enter your last name, first name and add affiliation (eg. University of Macau) in case of repetitive names.

Click into your personal page:

The Scopus ID is the “Scopus Author Identifier” indicated by the green arrow in the above picture.

The Scopus ID can also be obtained from the numbers after the "=" in the URL, as shown above:

Google Scholar Citation value is retrieved based on the Google Author ID added by the scholar. The specific operation is as follows:

Enter into “My Workspace”, click “Edit Profile“, then enter your Goolge Author ID, it shows as follows:

The automatic retrieval and update of Google Scholar Citation starts at 00:00 every day.

For example, if you add Google Author ID at 5:00 p.m., you will see the Google Scholar Citation value after 0:00 the next day.

Click https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en ，enter your name to get into your personal page.

The Goolge Author ID is ZpARMMQAAAAJ in the URL, it shows as follows:

Not all publications need to be submitted manually.

If your publication is already included in the Scopus database, and the publication institution is the University of Macau, you do not need to submit these publications manually. They will be imported to the Scholars page by the Library periodicall.

Otherwise, it should be considered that if the publication has been submitted by another co-author, scholars can enter the title of the publication in the search bar at the top left of the Scholars Page, and if it has already existed, scholars can simply claim it without repeating the entry.

Click the link below to view a short video on how to search and claim a record.

The Library does incremental updates from the Scopus database once a month. By the 15th of each month, the Library will upload publications with a publication date in the previous month into the Scholars Page. For example, if your publication has a publication date of December 2022, it will be uploaded to the Scholars Page on January 15, 2023.

Please refer to the following for the definitions of several confusing document types.

1. Journal article: Research reports that are considered to be new and original that can be cited. These include research papers, brief communications, technical notes, chronologies, full papers, and case reports (in full-text form) published in journals. Articles usually include author abstracts, charts, tables, and cited references.

2. Journal: Journals dedicated to the dissemination of original research and commentary on current developments in a specific discipline, subdiscipline, or field of study (e.g., Journal of Clinical Epidemiology), usually published quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly, and sold by subscription.

3. Book chapter: Monographs or publications written on a specific topic within the main part of a book. There are two types of book chapters, the other being articles, reviews, biographies, etc., depending on the nature of the book chapter.

4. Book: Monographs or publications on a specific topic.

5. Conference paper: Full papers on a broad range of subjects that have been or will be presented at a seminar or conference. The accepted papers must have been presented in full at a conference, symposium, or similar meeting.

6. Conference proceedings: The official record of a conference. It is a collection of papers, paper or electronic, that corresponds to the keynote presentation at a conference and additional information (e.g., titles and copyright pages) that are unified into a collection or related group, and may also include other content.

7. Presentation: Presentations given at a conference, symposium, or similar meeting.

8. Conference: Conferences sponsored, at least in part, by an entity at which information is exchanged and discussed.

9. Meeting Abstract: Abstracts or extended abstracts of completed papers that have been or will be presented at a seminar or conference.

When selecting the target collection, if the author’s affiliation of the publication is the University of Macau, you can select by your faculty or department. Publications with this option checked will be counted towards your total publications and UM publications.

If the author’s affiliation of the publication is not the University of Macau, you can check "personal research not belonging to the institute". Publications with this option checked will be counted towards your total publications only.

Scholars can select the publication status according to the publication stage of the article at the time of submission.

Published: The final stage of publication.

Forthcoming: Works that are about to be published include journal articles or books that have been agreed to be published but have not yet been published. For publications with this status, scholars can change the status to "Published" through the editor after they are officially published, without having to re-enter all the publication's descriptive data.

Works that have not yet received a formal notification from a publisher can also be submitted to the Scholar's Library and displayed on the Scholar's History.

For works at this stage of publication, you can select " Submit a Working Record " for submission.

Works submitted as working record will be temporarily stored in "Unfinished Submissions" and will only be visible to scholars themselves.

The submission page of the Scholars Page will be queried and matched with existing titles in the library according to the type of publication and title selected by the scholar to minimize duplicate records. If you see a pop-up message with the same name when entering, we suggest you click the title link in the pop-up window to check the details of the item to make sure it is your publication.

If yes, you can simply claim it. If not, scholars can close the pop-up window and continue with the submission.

Please refer to the example below to fill in the correct author and author affiliation.

Scholars can choose whether to upload the full text or not.

The full-text version of the document is uploaded in the location shown below with no copyright dispute.

Not uploading the full text will not affect the display of the scholar's "Academic Achievement Report". Visitors can follow the DOI link to view the article.

Scholars Page provides citation counts for publications in both the Web of Science and Scopus databases.The citation counts for a publication will be grabbed based on the DOI. The figure below shows that after adding DOI, Scholars Page system will automatically grab the citation counts of the item in both databases.

Scholars Page provides JCR JIF values. The JIF will be grabbed based on the title and ISSN. This page shows the number of impact factors that will be automatically grabbed by the Scholars Page system after correcting the title and ISSN of the item.

Scholars may check the name and ISSN of a journal in JCR by visiting: https://jcr.clarivate.com/ .