Researcher Profiles

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (Iaunched in June 2010) aims at creating a central registry of persistent author identifiers and at integrating research output to the contributor ID. 

Registration is free. A step by step guide to registering is available. ORCID allows easy import of works from ResearcherID. Privacy setting (public, trusted parties, only me) is controlled by the individual.

Benefits of setting up an ORCID ID to researchers:

• Eliminate name ambiguity
• Maintain a single ID for manuscript submissions, grant applications, data set depositions
• Improve discoverability of your research
• Get updates and credit for your work.

ORCID has partnerships with many publishers and organizations. See a list of ORCID Member organizations including research organizations, publishers, funders, professional associations, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem. 

ORCID FAQ

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We recommend that authors create an ORCID ID and then check their profiles in ResearcherID (Web of Science), Google Scholar Citations, and Microsoft Academic Search. 

Here are a few of the publishers requiring ORCID ID:

• The Royal Society
• PLOS
• eLife
• American Geophysical Union
• IEEE
• Science journals
• Frontiers

ResearcherID is a unique identifier that connects author profiles to their publications across the Web of Science Group products (Web of Science, Publons, and InCites). Having a Web of Science ResearcherID helps:

• match and disambiguate authors
• ensure correct attribution of publications to the authors on the Web of Science
• add citation metrics and other metadata from the Web of Science Core Collection to the Publons profile.
• keep your ORCID up to date by linking it to your Web of Science ResearcherID on Publons

See: About Web of Science Researcher Profiles 

Google Scholar Citations allow authors to set up their Google Scholar profiles (no ID is assigned) with an option of collecting publication lists and keeping a track of citations (computed automatically by Google Scholar), graph citations over time and create email alerts "to follow" new citations of articles of interest. You can find articles in Google Scholar, export from EndNote or add items manually to your profile. You can choose to update your list of articles automatically by Google Scholar or manually by you. Other features are adding a link to your webpage and inviting co-authors.

Google Scholar Citations automatically calculate three metrics: h-index, i10-index and the total number of citations.

i10-Index indicates the number of publications with at least 10 citations (introduced by Google Scholar in July 2011).

Privacy settings for the Google Scholar profile are controlled by the individual. Making it public will appear in Google Scholar search results.

Google Scholar Citations Help.