Each unit at the institution will have its own distinct page (and have the ability to add their own specific hero image.) This page may include the following data, specific to the unit:

• SDGs
• Profiles
• Fingerprint
• Activities
• Courses
• Collaboration Map

FAR administrators will indicate which faculty will have a Web Profile. Web Profiles can be turned on/off for faculty via a Faculty Classification.

Each faculty profile will typically display the following:

• The name, thumbnail image, and current position of the faculty member
• Biography
• Network
• Activities
  • Grants
  • Courses
  • Scholarship
• Similar Profiles
• Fingerprint (premium)
• SDGs (premium)

Why

The Similar Profiles section:

• Helps potential collaborators find one another 
• Helps people to understand who works in a particular field of study.

How

Finding similar profiles is done by looking at the below criteria, in the following priority order:

1. Using the existing fingerprint similarity algorithm.
2. Shared scholarly output and grants, sorted from most to least.
3. Persons directly sharing organizations, sorted from highest citation count to lowest.

We aim for a minimum of 6, and a maximum of 12 similar profiles for each profile. If the person already has 6 similar profiles based on the fingerprint similarity algorithm, no further criteria are used. If the threshold of 6 is not reached, it goes through the remaining criteria in the above order. If at any point the minimum threshold of 6 persons is reached, it stops searching.

PlumX Splat Metrics

PlumX captures a comprehensive set of research metrics in five categories, each represented by a distinct color:

• Citations (orange): Records how often a work is cited in other scholarly articles.
• Usage (green): Tracks how often a work is accessed, including views and downloads.
• Captures (purple): Measures how often a work is bookmarked or saved for later reading.
• Mentions (yellow): Counts references to a work in news articles, blogs, Wikipedia, and other platforms.
• Social Media (blue): Monitors shares and discussions about work on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Metrics in these categories are drawn from a variety of online sources, encompassing where a work is published, shared, or referenced. On the Web Profile Research Output pages, PlumX Metrics are displayed in a widget called the Plum Print.

The Plum Print is a dynamic, visual representation of the metrics. Each colored circle in the Plum Print corresponds to one of the five categories, with the size of the circle indicating the relative amount of activity in that category.

Hovering over the Plum Print reveals more details about the activity in each category. By clicking on the Plum Print, you can access a detailed page with granular metrics for a specific record, including sources and citation indexes. This detailed view offers a deeper understanding of the impact and reach of the faculty member's research.

The Altmetric Donut and Attention Score

The Altmetric Attention Score and donut are designed to help you quickly gauge the amount and type of attention a research output has received. The attention score is a weighted approximation of all the attention captured for a research output, rather than a simple count of mentions.

The Altmetric Donut

The colors of the Altmetric donut represent different sources of attention. The proportion of each color in the donut changes based on the sources from which the research output has received attention.

The Altmetric Attention Score

The Altmetric Attention Score is an automatically calculated, weighted count of all the attention a research output has received. It is based on three main factors:

• Volume: The score increases as more people mention the research output. However, only one mention per source from each person is counted. For example, multiple tweets about the same paper by the same person are counted as a single mention.
• Sources: Different sources contribute different weights to the score. For instance, a mention in a newspaper article contributes more to the score than a blog post, which in turn contributes more than a tweet.
• Authors: The score also considers the influence of the authors of the mentions. This includes how often the author discusses scholarly articles, any potential bias towards particular journals or publishers, and the reach of their audience.

The collaboration map allows viewers to see the global reach a university, unit, and scholar has had. This is auto-generated from publications or Awards that contain external co-authors and where the external institution is also listed in the Scopus publication details. This map is located on the Web Profile homepage and on the individual researchers' profile page. Collaborations are limited to 5 years back in time, so if the current year is 2021, it will show back from 2017.

For premium users, citations and h-index are displayed on faculty member's profile pages. This data is pulled from Scopus.

Citations: The number of times the faculty member's publications have been cited.

H-index: Shows the impact a scholar has had. It is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. In Scopus, the h-index is not a static value; it is calculated live on a set of results each time you look it up. A job is run weekly to copy in the citation count from Scopus to your website.

The Fingerprint Engine is a tool that automatically generates a ‘fingerprint’ of key concepts based on the titles and descriptions for scholarship, grant, and profile data in FAR. These concepts provide a quick snapshot of the key themes/topics covered by the content and can be used during search and filtering. The Faculty Web Profile can also be used for finding similar researcher profiles. Some of the fingerprints seen on Interfolio Faculty Web Profiles are aggregations, meaning they are recalculated and may change after a new piece of content is added.

How do I optimize my content for fingerprinting?

To generate the fingerprint, the content needs to have a title and a description (abstract) providing an overview of the content piece.

At the moment, there is no restriction on the number of words that must be included, but our tests show that a title of 5-15 words and a description (abstract) of 150–300 words would produce a good fingerprint.  Please note that there is no need to shorten your description if it is longer and the system will take all of the available content into account (not just the first 300 words).

How can a fingerprint change over time?

When new data for an aggregated fingerprint is added, the aggregation is recalculated. For example, the researcher’s fingerprint is an aggregation of the fingerprinting results for their research interests and all research outputs and prizes, linked to the person. 

Major updates to the thesaurus are not frequent and are mainly focused on adding new terms or optimizing the existing vocabulary (removing the terms that are no longer used, can be replaced with a better alternative). An update to the thesaurus may lead to a change in the resulting fingerprint.

In September 2015, 193 countries agreed to adopt a set of global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. 

Interfolio Faculty Web Profiles generates SDGs through the management of keywords. 

Data is mapped from the Institutions FAR module, IDS, and Scopus into Interfolio Faculty Web Profiles. Institutions will decide which data they want to bring over from FAR to Web Profiles. Typically this will include:

• Name
• Unit
• Current Position
• Degrees
• Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions
• Teaching
• Grants
• Biography
• Professional Service
• For premium Web Profiles: The number of citations and H-index is pulled from Scopus