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Profile Refinement Services (Description)Profile Refinement Services (Description)
Introduction
Profile Refinement Service (PRS) is a Scopus author disambiguation service offered for Pure. It helps you to populate research output related to researchers at your institution by making use of your researchers' publication information in Scopus. In Elsevier we have a PRS team that handles PRS by using both algorithms and manual search for publications. Your Implementation Manager (IM) will arrange the PRS with the PRS team and help you to populate Pure with the publications once the Profile Refinement is completed.
Goals
- Populate Pure with research output
Increase the accuracy and reliability of research output data
Metadata Considerations
The PRS system is an external system that feeds publication data into Pure based on metadata feeds from Pure. The quality of your metadata for Organizations and Persons are therefore essential to get a successful result. As a minimum you need to provide accurate metadata as follows:
Organisations
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Preconditions
- The Source ID of the organisation does not change over time
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The data sent for PRS is real production data - not test data
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Quality factors
- Name of organisation
- Well defined hierarchy (most important is University and Department)
- Address (optional but helpful)
Persons
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Preconditions
- The Source ID of the person does not change over time
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The data sent for PRS is real production data - not test data
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Quality factors
- Name (first and last name)
- Name variants (if the person has changed name or publishes under another name)
- Relation to department level - affiliation (including historical)
- Email address(es)
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ORCID (optional but helpful)
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No Scopus IDs is needed - the Scopus IDs will be returned by the PRS
Besides getting publications into Pure via PRS you can still add research output manually. If a manually added publication is also brought into Pure by PRS a duplicate will be created. These duplicates should be merged using the PRS publication as the target. Thereby the merged publication will be updated by PRS if you have purchased recurring PRS.
Implementation steps
The PRS process is described in the following. Please note if you have purchased one-off PRS you will only have to follow step 1-3. Step 4-5 are additional steps for customers who have purchased a subscription for PRS to ensure that researcher's profiles are kept up-to-date.
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Step |
Description |
| 1 | Initial PRS submission |
When your productive Pure is populated with Organisations and Persons and have a high quality the initial PRS is ordered by your IM. The data is handed over to the PRS team and after 6-8 weeks all identified publications are returned. Your IM will help you to import the publications by setting up a synchronisation job. |
| 2 | Review |
Once all publications are brought into Pure we recommend that you review the result |
| 3 | Correct imported research output | If you find a problem with the publications brought into Pure after PRS you can of course change it in Pure, but you should also report it to sveprofiles@elsevier.com so it gets fixed at the source (in Scopus). |
| 4 | Subsequent PRS Submission |
3 times a year added researcher profiles are submitted for profiling. You are allowed up to a 10% change in your profiles on a yearly basis. You are free to schedule these requests as desired. To submit a PRS request :
The status of a publication after this PRS import (3 times a year) will be "Validated". |
Deliverables
After completion of this task you and your IM will provide the following deliverables:
- Pure is populated with Scopus publications
- Setup of synchronisation jobs related to PRS
Published at March 03, 2025