Fall 2025: No profile or activity updates required. January 2026: Faculty will be asked to review and revise their scholarly activity.
Scholarly activity data sources:
- Databases
- ArXiv, CiNii EN, CiNii JP, Crossref, DBLP, Dimensions, Europe PubMed, fighare, ORCiD, PubMed, RePEc, SSRN, Web of Science
CV transcription (CVs provided by units in 2024)
The following list includes possible accomplishments faculty members can add to their Elements profile.
Abstract
- Accepted abstracts
Book
- Non-scholarly new/revised
- Nonfiction, anthology
- Scholarly new/revised
- Textbook new/revised
- Casebook full/portion
- Edited books
Chapter
- In non-scholarly new/revised
- In scholarly new/revised
- In textbook new/revised Conference Proceedings
- Reprint of journal article
- Reprint of essay
Conference
- Conference proceeding paper
- Symposia
- Workshop
Datasets and Open Source Presentation
- Posters
- Invited Speaker
- Discussant
- Panel member
- Podium presentation
- Paper and abstract presentation
- Professional Meeting / Conference Presentations
- Workshop
- Organizing symposia
Exhibitions, Installations, and Designs
- Architecture building designs, installations, object designs
- Art works in publication
- Curated Exhibition
- Art exhibition competitive, festival, invitational, one-person
- Art installation
Instructional Material
- Published laboratory manual
- Open Educational Resource (OER)
- Tutorials (published on the web)
- Lesson plans (published on the web)
- Curricula
Intellectual Property
- Copyright
- Patent
- Trademark
Journal Article
- Academic journals
- In-house journal
- Professional journal
- Public or trade journal
- Magazine
- Law Review
- Editorial
- Editing a special issue of a journal
- Introduction to a special issue of a journal
- Working paper
Media & Press
- Blog
- Web series
- Interviews
- Multimedia web series
- Newsletter
- Media article
- Regular column in journal or newspaper
- Policymaker Citation
Multimedia
- Broadcast media
- Audio recording
- CD
- Documentary
- DVD
- Film
- Digital scholarship
- Oral history
- Podcast
- Website
- Blog
Other
- Professional Standards and Best Practices
- Notes and comments not fitting any other activity type
Preprint Production, Creative Work, and Performance
- Dance choreographer for piece
- Dance coaching
- Dance performance (single piece or multiple)
- Music composition performance of work
- Music conducting professional, select groups, guest artist
- Music performance soloist, collaborative, ensemble member
- Music recording
- Theatre performance
- Written play that is performed
- Written play
- Musical compositions, transcriptions, and arrangements
- Design and technology of a production
Report
- Cited Research
- Research Report
- Technical Report
- Position Paper
- Working Paper
Review (in Elements database, reviews typically show up as Journal Articles)
- Book reviews
- Essay reviews
- Review of a creative work
- Written reviews of performances
Scholarly Edition Shorter Works & Collections
- Encyclopedia Entry
- Bibliography
- Collection
- Essay
- Manuscript
- Monograph
- Translation or Transcription
- Poetry
- Exhibit catalog
- Liner notes for sound recording
- Liner notes for DVD
Software/Code
Thesis and Dissertation
Unless you are the Editor or the Translator of a work, you will select “Author of” for relationship. In cases where you are the performer, producer, or the creator of the work, select your role as that of “author."
Activity Type | Activity | Tips |
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Abstract | An abstract of a conference presentation was later published in the proceedings of a conference or a journal | Do not put conference presentations here |
Chapter | Wrote a chapter for an edited collection in a book |
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Chapter | Wrote a chapter in a handbook |
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Book | Edited a book with chapters/articles by other authors | Choose Relationship = Editor of |
Book | Authored a scholarly book |
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Book | Wrote a scholarly book on a single subject or group of related subjects (e.g. wrote review of pitcher plants; reproduced works of a single artist) |
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Book | Wrote a scholarly addition (the critical representation of historic document that often stand for a certain text or work) | Include description |
Conference | Published conference presentation in proceedings of a conference or journal | Do not put conference presentations here. See Professional Meetings/ Conference Presentations. |
Conference | Edited a conference proceeding or other scholarly work | Choose Relationship = Editor of |
Datasets and Open Source | Shared dataset in an online repository/database |
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Exhibition, Installation, and Design | Commissioned to create a scholarly work (e.g. architectural design, artwork) |
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Exhibition, Installation, and Design | Curated an exhibit for display | You can enter this with only a start date, but be sure to return to enter an end date. |
Exhibition, Installation, and Design | Work was shown at a gallery exhibition | You can enter this with only a start date but be sure to return to enter an end date. Add description. |
Exhibition, Installation, and Design | Designed a visual object, illustration, graphic design (e.g. designed the cover for a journal) |
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Intellectual Property | Submitted a patent | Add Filed date, Expiry or Award date |
Instructional Material | Developed scholarly material / scholarship in video, audio, or image format (i.e. designed an instructional film/video/media; produced a YouTube video in area of expertise) |
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Instructional Material | Developed lab manuals, instructor’s manuals, study guides or training materials |
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Journal Article | Published a peer reviewed journal article |
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Journal Article | Published an article in a law journal |
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Journal Article | Submitted a peer reviewed journal article | Status = Submitted |
Journal Article | Peer reviewed journal article was accepted but not yet published | Status = Accepted |
Journal Article | Wrote an article in non-peer review journal |
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Media and Press | Wrote an Op-Ed for a Newspaper |
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Media and Press | Published in a bulletin |
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Media and Press | Published in a newsletter |
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Media and Press | Wrote a professional blog |
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Media and Press | Designed/developed a website |
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Media and Press | Wrote an article and posted it online | Only use this if the work has not been posted elsewhere |
Other | Notes and Comments | Only use “other” if the activity is scholarly and no other category works |
Preprint | Uploaded an article before it was published on a preprint server |
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Presentation | Invited to speak at a conference, colloquia, or symposia as a featured or keynote speaker |
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Presentation | Invited to teach a workshop or give a lecture during a conference or symposium or event (not held in regular course) | Presentation Type=Conference, Symposium, Workshop; pick Event type, Event name; Check the Invited? box |
Presentation | Invited to a research seminar at another institution | Presentation Type=Seminar; pick Event type, Event name; Check the Invited? box |
Presentation | Panelist, moderator, or discussant at a conference or scholarly event |
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Presentation | Presented a poster at a meeting or conference |
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Presentation | Gave an oral / podium presentation at an annual meeting, symposium, conference, or other professional gathering |
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Presentation OR Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Gave an oral reading of creative work | Choose as appropriate for the discipline. |
Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Wrote a music composition, a poem, a fiction novel, or a play | Create work type (e.g. composition, fiction) |
Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Performed a creative work in a recognized venue | You can enter this with only a start date. Please return to enter an end date. If this was only a 1-day event, enter both a start and end date. |
Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Put on a production | You can enter this with only a start date. Please return to enter an end date. If this was only a 1-day event, enter both a start and end date. |
Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Screening of work was held |
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Production, Creative Work, and Performance | Creative work was performed by someone else |
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Report | Wrote a White paper in support of policymaking by a governmental agency |
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Report | Submitted a technical report to this state agency |
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Report | Wrote a document outlining the rationale for choosing a particular policy alternative or course of action in a current decision. Participated in drafting or arguing an appellate legal brief |
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Review | Wrote a book review |
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Review | Wrote a film review |
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Shorter Work and Collection | Wrote an editorial | Choose Editorial Comment as a sub-type |
Shorter Work and Collection | Translated a scholarly work | Choose Relationship = Translator of |
Shorter Work and Collection | Wrote an article an Encyclopedia entry |
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Software and Code | Published many short code fragments or one substantial piece of code |
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Software and Code | Developed software for a research project | List as appropriate type |
Software and Code | Developed a mobile app in area of expertise | Only use “other” if the activity is scholarly and no other category works |
Thesis and Dissertation | Thesis or Dissertation has been accepted as part of the completion of an accredited degree-program | Add the Title, Author, Publication date, Institution where degree granted – thesis or dissertation titles can also be added as part of Degree on “edit my profile page” |
List as appropriate type | Your work was translated by another scholar into another language | List as appropriate type |
Do Not Enter except as explanatory comment on a grant application or piece of scholarship | IRB accepted for either grant funded or not grant funded research |
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WATCH THE REVIEWING YOUR SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES TUTORIAL VIDEO
On your Homepage, you will likely see a prompt to claim your Scholarly Activities.
If you already have claimed scholarly activities, you may wish to check and verify that they have been correctly attributed to you.
In the “Pending” section, you will see scholarly activities that the system has associated with your name or other identifiers. You should review these activities and either claim or reject them.
You may also see some suggested research identifiers (e.g. Dimensions Researcher ID) at the top of the page. Claiming or rejecting these identifiers can help you with auto claiming or rejecting scholarly activities (see Automatic Claiming of Scholarly Work & Sponsored Projects.docx for more information).
You can “bulk” claim or reject scholarly activities by checking all or multiple entries and using the “claim” or “reject” options at the top. You can also change how many entries per page you want to view and filter entries using the tools in the “Filters” panel on the right.
Adding a manual record to a Scholarly Activity from an external data source:
- Click on the three dots at the right-hand corner of the record you wish to edit and select “View Details.”
- Click the “Plus” sign to “Add Manual Record”
This will open a window to let you add additional information.
Editing a scholarly activity that was manually entered:
- Click on the three dots at the right-hand corner of the record you wish to edit and select “View Details.”
- Then click on the pencil symbol in the top right corner to edit.
Once you have claimed/rejected all pending scholarly activities in your profile, you may need to add activities from your CV that were not automatically imported into Elements by external data sources.
- Go to the Scholarly activities box, select +ADD NEW and select the scholarly activity type you wish to add.
- Please refer to the Scholarly Activity.docx if you need help determining which scholarly activity type to choose.
- You will see a field that will ask you to enter TITLE or ISBN (books), DOI (journal articles, conferences).
- If your search yields the scholarly activity, claim it.
- If it doesn’t, you will have to enter it manually.
Manually entering a scholarly activity: select +ADD NEW and select scholarly activity type. Below the Title field, select Skip; this will let you manually enter a scholarly activity. Enter as much information as is available (you will see mandatory fields marked with a red asterisk); click SAVE.
Chapters: First try searching by book title; it is more likely that the book title will be found. If the book is found in Elements, it will auto-populate a lot of information.
Changing/Correcting a Record: Click on the title of the record to display details, then click on the pencil symbol to edit.
Changing Scholarly Activity Type: If you accidentally entered the incorrect type (e.g. Media and Press vs. Multimedia), you can go back to the record and edit it. Click on the pencil symbol next to where the record shows the type and change it.