Publications are registered by type in Pure. The first step i the registration process is to select the template that corresponds to the type of publication that you want to register.

If you have chosen the wrong template, you can click the "Change template" button in the upper righthand corner of the template. Er du kommet til at vælge en forkert skabelon i hierarkiet, kan du klikke på "Skift skabelon" i øverste højre hjørne af skabelonen. Some fields are not on all templates. Information that you have entered may therefore be lost when you switch.

Read more about publication types.

When you have chosen a publication type (template) you need to select a publication category. You do that in the publication template itself. The publication categories are:

Research

• A research publication provides new research-study information primarily written for other researchers and peers in the field.

Communication

• A communication publication is characterized by communicating knowledge to a broad non-peer audience.

Commissioned

• A commissioned publication is often requested by an organization or government body. It may be more or less obvious from the publication who the requester is. The requester may or may not have paid for the production of the publication.

Education

• An educational publication is most often used in an educational setting.

The categories are shown at the top of the template. You only see the categories that are relevant for the publication type you have selected.

Peer review is used in research to ensure the quality of research output.

A publication is peer reviewed when it has been professionally assessed by fellow researchers prior to the inclusion in a journal or similar.  Peer review can take different forms. They can be anonymous or be conducted by an editorial committee. The exact form will depend on the tradition of the research discipline.

If you have selected the categories "Research" or "Commissioned", in most cases you will have to indicate whether or not the publication is peer reviewed.

It is important that you provide the correct peer-review status, as AU Pure does not have sufficient knowledge to adjust an incorrect  peer-review status.

Publication status is automatically set to "Published" when the record in Pure is created. If you register the publication before it is published in its final version, please select a different status from the drop-down menu e.g. "e-pub ahead of print". From 2025, e-pubs ahead of print will also be counted in the year they are accessible. When their status changes to "published", they can be updated with volume, issue, page number/article number, but the original publishing year remains unchanged.

You can choose to register each step of the publishing process to have the entire publishing history recorded in Pure. Only the latest status is shown on your personal AU homepage.

You may also choose to just have the latest publication status and update this value as the publishing process progresses.

Select the correct original language before you start filling in the information. You can change your default language in your Pure setting if you primarily publish in English.

Insert the publication title in the title field, using the exact title the publication has/will have when published.

If there is a subtitle, insert the subtitle in the subtitle field. Pure will automatically insert a colon (:) between the title and the subtitle when the publication is shown on your AU homepage.

If you click the title field you will get several formatting options under "Symbols and formatting". From here you can insert special characters and italicized part of the title.

In the abstract field you insert the abstract text. Be aware that not all journals/publisher permit the use of their version of the abstract.

Add page numbers, separating first and last page with a dash (e.g. 12 - 16), and add how many pages the publication has. If the article has an article number, write this in the "article number" field. Many journals use either page numbers or article number.

If there is no article number or page numbers if may be that the publication is not yet published in its final version. If there are no volume and issue either, it has not been published in the context of Pure. Please check if the publication in reality is "ePub ahead of print" or a different version. Select publication status accordingly.

All authors must be registered in the correct order.

Be careful to list the correct authors: AU authors must be registered as internal persons. They will be notified that the publication now appears on their AU/Pure-profile. External persons will not be notified. Remember to choose the correct internal person so that a namesake is not improperly associated.

The affiliations in Pure must match what is stated on the publication itself.

You are welcome to register publications from a previous employment. In this case, you just have to appear as an internal person without internal affiliation but with external affiliation. Then the registration will appear on your profile, but will not be attributed to your current department. Be aware that your current internal affiliation is applied automatically, so you must actively remove it from non-AU publications.

If an affiliation does not appear on the publication itself, in Pure you still set the affiliation you had when the publication was written.

Use the buttons to the right of the names to edit and delete/add authors and change the order.

Corresponding author is the author who is responsible for all communication concerning the publication, before as well as after it is published. To be "Corresponding Author" is not the same as being first author, even though there often is overlap between the two.

If an author is marked as "Corresponding author" on the publication, this information can be registered in Pure by marking the “corresponding author” box for the author(s) in the list of authors. An author should only be marked as "Corresponding author" if the author is stated as such directly on the publication.

 It has no effect on the order of authors that one author has the corresponding role. The order of authors must still match the publication no matter where in the order "Corresponding author" is listed. In the example below, the corresponding author is third on the list of authors.

In most cases, there is only one "Corresponding author". If you mark more than one author as corresponding, you will get an alert. You can ignore this alert as long as there in fact are more ”Corresponding authors” stated on the publication.

Most publications imported from Scopus in 2019 and later, and have a "Corresponding author" marked on the publication, will automatically have the corresponding author marked in Pure as well. You are not required to go back and mark the corresponding author for older publications that have already been registered in Pure. For new submissions, we would like to see corresponding author marked as stated on the publication.

If you go back and mark yourself (or another author) as "corresponding author" on a validated publication, it triggers revalidation. If the publication is outside our current scope of validation, it may not be revalidated. This has no impact on what is displayed on your personal AU homepage.

The Corresponding author information is not displayed on the personal AU homepages. However, it is possible to use the field as filter in search results and reports.

It is mandatory to add journal and publisher in order to save the registration.

You can search for the journalor publisher by entering the title, acronym, or ISSN in the search field. There may be multiple pages to click through, and the correct record may be on one of the last pages.

If you produced publications while you were employed somewhere other than AU, you may still register these publications in Pure.

As these publications are only affiliated with you (as author or editor) and not your AU organisation. Therefore, they are considered "external publications" and are not included in AU Key Statistics. For the same reason these publications are only visible on your personal AU homepage and not on your department's homepage.

If you prior to your employment at Aarhus University were employed at a university that also uses Pure, you have the option to import these publications directly into Pure. This saves you from registering them manually.

Read more about this registration method under "Import from file (ORCID, RIS, BibTex, PXA)".

Publications are to be registered in Pure the same year they are published. Time of publication is normally apparent from the publication itself. Publications are registered with publication year and month, or just the publication year if it is not relevant to enter a month. It may be relevant to provide the full publishing date for newpaper articles and other material with high publishing frequency.

We also operate with a value called Submission year in Pure. As per 1 Januar 2025, submission year refers to the year a publication is included in AU Key Statistics. Submission year is not visible to the ordinary user in Pure and is automatically set to match the year the publication was registered in Pure. If a publication is validated when it is e-published, the submission year may be before the publication year.