There might be times in your research where you will want to see everything an author has written. This can be tricky, depending on the author and their discipline. No database will have an exhaustive list of everything an author has ever written, but below are some suggestions for how to search an author’s name and find their work.
Authors who have Google Scholar profiles are your best shot at finding nearly comprehensive lists of their scholarship.
Go to https://scholar.google.com and do an author search using author: before the author’s name. Make sure there is no space between author: and the beginning of the author’s name.
Tip: You may need to try different permutations of an author’s name, e.g., just initials for their first and middle name, or their full first name with middle initial. If the author has a common name, you may need to include their institutional affiliation or keywords from the topic they write about.
If an author has a Google Scholar profile, a link to their profile will appear at the top of the search results. Click on the author’s name to see their full profile:
Google Scholar profiles have a list of everything an author has written, provided that it appears in Google Scholar—including journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers, and other scholarly products an author may have archived in their institutional repository.
You will often be able to access the full-text from an individual record in Google Scholar:
Open Researcher Contributor ID (ORCID) is a unique identifier for an author. These free IDs are easy to create and serve a variety of useful purposes in research. If you are interested in creating an ORCID profile, see the author track of this Research Impact Challenge.
Robust ORICD profiles provide a complete picture of an author’s scholarly activities and are great places to find what an author has written. Not all authors have ORCID profiles, but they are becoming increasingly common. It's worth checking to see if an author has an ORCID profile, especially if you do not find a Google Scholar profile.
Go to https://orcid.org/ and search for an author:
Tip: If the author has a fairly common name, you may need to also include their affiliation in order to find their ORCID profile.
Once you find the author, click on their ORCID to go to their profile.
If the author has a public ORCID profile and has added their works, you can find articles, book chapters, books, conference papers etc. under the "Works" section of their profile.
Tip: Authors sometimes include a link to unique or persistent identifiers, such as DOI or handle, that will take you directly to the work itself or a version of it in a repository like IUI ScholarWorks.
If all else fails, you may try googling the author’s name and their institutional affiliation. Schools and departments will often create profile pages for faculty, researchers, and graduate students. These profiles will occasionally provide a list of selected works, or link to an author’s CV. Faculty profiles and CVs are good places to see what an author has written.
This is an exploratory activity. Using the article from the Citation Chaining activity (Day 1) or the author you selected from Day 2, see if you can find other works by these authors. Try searching for their Google Scholar or ORCID profile. Try looking in databases such as PubMed, if appropriate for their discipline. If all else fails, see if you can find their departmental profile.
