Pure Research Profiles: Automated Search

You can configure an automated search to scan various linked databases for information about research output that may belong to you. Any items found are presented to you as candidates so that you can accept and import the relevant publications.

This functionality is only visible if it is available at your institution.

An automated search is run once every seven days. You can also run an automated search in a one-off manner.

1. Open your Personal overview workspace.
2. In the top area of the workspace, click “Edit Profile.” The Person editor window is opened with your current information.
3. Click the Automated search tab in the left navigation.
4. For each online source in the Enable automated search area, toggle the switch ON if you want to enable the automated search.
5. Automated search is based on the authors’ names on publications, or ORCID/Scopus IDs.  If you want to manually add an additional name variant to search for, click “Add name” and enter the additional name variant.
6. Standard name suggestions are also provided by Pure so that common representations of author names are not missed.  To add standard name suggestions, click “Add suggested names.”
7. Tip: After adding name variants, you can edit the variant by clicking “Edit name” or remove it with the –button.
8. Once you have at least one name variant, you can click “Preview candidates” to check that the search criteria are able to appropriately locate some results.  The number of previewed candidates is not indicative of the actual number of publications related to you, but rather how well your search criteria will work.

Control how you are notified about publication candidates

The Automated search tab of the Person editor window. 

The Task settings tab of the User settings window.