Scholarly Identity: A Guide

Mendeley is a joint scholarly networking site, citation management tool, and data repository

• Connects with ORCID to help you keep your profile current
• Citation updates help you stay on top of works cited
• Careers and funding section
• Doubles as a citation management tool 
• Join open or private groups dedicated to certain topics. 
• Receive personalized suggestions for articles to read and people to follow.
• Share reading lists and collections openly or with certain Mendeley groups
• "Bookmark" readings to save for later - this can also be used to analyze the non-citation impact of your work
• Set alerts to make sure you don’t miss any activity in your network or on discussion boards.
• Data repository available to share archived data. Proceed with caution***
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Mendeley collects and shares various Metrics for each user:

• Readers: The total number of times that your publications have been added to a personal library by users of Mendeley. 
• Views: The total number of times that your publications have been viewed by users of ScienceDirect (Elsevier platform)
• Publications: The total number of publications you have authored
• Citations: The total number of citations that all of your publications have received
• H-index: Your personal h-Index - a metric that measures your productivity and impact using your publications.
• Media Mentions: Newsflo (product used by Mendeley) tracks over 55,000 English-speaking global media sources and has the technology and network to expand to non-English language media to track article mentions

Most of the metrics are powered by Scopus Database (not available through Tulane) or through the Mendeley platform.

• Product now owned by mega publisher Elsevier, no longer free
• Review the Terms of Use to ensure data and research is safe
• Potential spam
• Many requests from users to "Read Full Text", only share when copyright permitted
• Reading list may be crawled