Scholarly Impact Challenge

Highlight your expertise by adding expertise terms to your profile.

To highlight your expertise and increase the ability for others to bring up your profile by adding relevant terms to your profile.  You can add UIC Research and Professional Expertise, Fields of Research and Mesh terms to your profile.

To add your expertise to your profile:

1. From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.
   • Go down to the "Labels" section of the page
   • Click on "Manage labels" next to the Expertise -Research and Professional Expertise (UIC defined) 
   • Search for the term you are looking and and when you find it, click on the term and click "Add" 
     • NOTE: if you expected a term to be available as part of the UIC Expertise list, but it is not available, please email myactivities@uic.edu with your suggestions for consideration.   To view a current list, see UIC Expertise Research and Professional Expertise
2. When you finish adding terms, click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the entry box to save. 
3. Repeat for Fields of Research, Mesh, Geographic Expertise and/or Availability labels.  Label explanations are provided below.

Label Types

• Expertise - Research and Professional Expertise (UIC defined terms).   
  • This is a list of expertise maintained by UIC.   If you find a needed expertise is missing from the list, please email  your suggestion to myactivities@uic.edu for consideration.  
  • To view a current list, see UIC Expertise Research and Professional Expertise
  • Selected expertise terms are visible on your public profile and can be used as filters on UICollaboratory.uic.edu
• Fields of Research 
  • Although these selected terms are not visible on your public profile, they work behind the scenes to provide additional identifiers to help retrieve your profile.
• MeSH terms
  • Medical Subject terms are developed for the national library of medicine and are primarily used in MEDLINE.  You can add these terms to your profile.
  • Although these selected terms are not visible on your public profile, they work behind the scenes to provide additional identifiers to help retrieve your profile.
• Geographic expertise
  • If you have cultural or research knowledge of a country, you can add geographic expertise to your profile.  The purpose is to let others know that you have expertise in a specific country and others can contact you for collaboration or information.
• Availability
  • This scheme allows you to describe what kinds of opportunities you are interested in being contacted about such as industry projects, mentoring or media enquiries. 

Once you have selected at least one UIC defined Research and Professional Expertise terms (more are preferred), you have completed Day 3 of the Challenge.

Optional: Further Enhance your  Profile and Biographical Information

The suggestions below are optional for entering the Scholarly Impact Challenge.   However, you may want to return at a later date to address these additional suggestions for enhancing your profile.

MyActivities allows you to generate a public profile (UICollaboratory), CVs, and BioSketches. To populate the Biographical portions of those documents, you must manually add this information to your profile through MyActivities. This includes information such as:

• Your education, academic and non-academic employment and language competencies.
• Your photograph
• Links to public-facing scholarly pages like a personal website, Google Scholar profile, ResearchGate page, etc.

The following is information that can be added to your profile to enhance your public profile.  

• Overview Statements: Add Statements about yourself, your research interests, and a teaching summary
• Indicate Availability: Available for mentoring, advising, media inquiries, speaking event
• Experience / Employment - enter UIC appointments, current and past professional appointments/ employment
• Education - Degrees, Certifications, Postgraduate training
• Addresses - Mailing, websites, social media
• Photo and Contact information

You have the opportunity to write 3 statements.  Overview, Research Interests, and Teaching summary.  

• Overview will appear on the About page of your public profile
• Research Interests appear under the Grant tab on your public profile
• Teaching summary appears on Teaching and Supervision page.

It is ok to just write an Overview statement and include all content in the overview statement.   

• To add a statement(s) - From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.    
• Click  "Add "next to Overview, Research interests, and/or Teaching summary to enter a summary of information about yourself.  
• When you finish filling out an entry, click the Save button at the bottom of the entry box to save.

Use availability to indicate the reasons why others may contact you.   Currently available options include:

• Advising (masters)
• Advising (PhD)
• Advising (postdoc)
• Advising (professional student)
• Career advice
• Collaborative projects
• Industry Projects
• Join a web conference as a panelist or speaker
• Mass spectrometry analysis
• Media enquiries
• Membership on an advisory committee
• Mentoring
• Research supervision - Masters or PhD student
• Research supervision - Professional or Post-doc
• Research supervision - Professional student
• Research supervision - Undergraduate student
• Software development

To add your Availability to your profile:

1. From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.
   • Go down to the "Labels" section of the page
   • Click on "Manage labels" next to Availability
   • Search for the term(s) you wish to promote related to your availability.  Click on the term and click "Add" 
2. When you finish adding terms for each label, click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the entry box to save.

To add your photo and contact information to your Elements profile:

1. From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button under the photo placeholder.
   • Click on "Manage photo" to change your photo.
   • Click Add a phone number if you want your phone number on your profile
2. When you finish filling out an entry, click the Save button at the bottom of the entry box to save.

UIC Appointments

Entering your UIC Appointments  

Because institutions and departments are used as filters, please follow the standardized format to enter your UIC appointments.

• Position - enter your rank/ track and any specific title in the same entry for regular faculty positions
  • List administrative appointments separately  
  • If you have multiple appointments, enter each separately
• Institution Name
  • Please use: University of Illinois Chicago
• Department
  • List your college first followed by a dash (-) prior to entering your official department name.   (do not add word department)
• Examples
  • Janet Doe. Clinical Professor. College of Nursing – Biobehavioral Nursing
  • Robert Smith. Associate Professor and Health Sciences Librarian. University Library
  • Jane Albert.  Professor. College of Medicine - Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Javier Rodriquez, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Rockford - Family Medicine
• For additional information on entering your UIC appointment, please see: Entering your UIC Appointments 

Academic appointments (non UIC)

Enter your academic appointments held at other academic institutions.  Enter only professional appointments since earning relevant degree(s).

Non-academic employment

Enter your non-academic employment held since earning relevant degree(s).

To add your Experience to your profile:

1. From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.
   • Go down to the "Experience" section of the page
     • For UIC appointments, click on "Add an institutional appointment" 
     • For NON UIC academic appointments, click on "Add an academic appointment"
     • For non-academic appointments, click on "Add a non-academic employment"
   • Fill in the fields related to the position.   * fields are required.   Click on the down ˅ caret to view additional fields to enter.
2. When you finish adding the information for a position, click "Save" at the bottom of the entry box to save.
3. Use the arrow button to put the positions in the correct order.  

To add your Education to your profile:

1. From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.
   • Go down to the "Education" section of the page
     • For Degrees:, click on "Add a degree" 
     • For Certifications, click on "Add a certification"
     • For Postgraduate training, click on "Add postgraduate training"
   • Fill in the fields related to the program.   * fields are required.   Click on the down ˅ caret to view additional fields to enter.
2. When you finish adding the information for a program, click "Save" at the bottom of the entry box to save.
3. Use the arrow button to put the positions in the correct order.  

• From your MyActivities homepage, click on the “Go to your profile” button on the right of your screen, under the photo placeholder.
  • Go down to the "Addresses" section of the page
    • To add a mailing address, click on "Add an address" and fill in the appropriate fields.
    • To add a web address or social media, click on "add a web address" 
      • select the type (personal, blog, RSS feed, twitter, google scholar, and more)
      • Fill in the appropriate fields.
  • When you finish , click "Save" at the bottom of the entry box to save.