Subject and Course Guides: Measure Your Research Impact: Author Identifiers

Create an ORCID ID

How Do I Create and Use ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Register for a free, persistent digital identifier that allows you to manage a record of your research activities.
Create an iD
How-to register for an ORCID iD and choose privacy settings.
Add Information
How-to add personal information, change your privacy settings and manually add works to your ORCID Record.
Import Works
How-to import publications from databases into your ORCID Record.
Connection to Other Sites
How-to link other author identifiers and profiles to your ORCID Record.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about ORCID. . .But Were Afraid to Ask
Short article in College & Research Libraries News (January 2016) by Alice Meadows, Director of Communications for ORCID.
Ten Things You Need to Know about ORCID Right Now
2014 blog post from the Impactstory team about the benefits of having an ORCID ID.
All about ORCID
2015 blog post by Alice Meadows via The Scholarly Kitchen.

What is ORCID?

Create a ResearcherID

ResearcherID
Register for a free author identifier, online community and search system integrated with Web of Knowledge.
Help articles and FAQs
Information on creating a ResearcherID profile, adding publications to your profile and sharing data between your ResearcherID and ORCID.

Correcting Your Author Profile

Scopus Author Feedback Wizard
Tool to collect all your Scopus records in one unique author profile.
Scopus Corrections
Submit corrections to author details.
Web of Science Data Change Request Form
Web of Science Data Change FAQs
Google Scholar Corrections FAQs

Enhancing Research Impact: Name Disambiguation

Source: Yale Medical Library, https://library.medicine.yale.edu/tutorials/1425

What are Author Identifiers?

Author identifiers are unique identifiers that allow authors distinguish themselves from other researchers and to unambiguously associate themselves with their work.

Author ambiguity in the scholarly community is a persistent problem due to:

One author publishing under multiple variations of the same name
Common names
Name changes, e.g. marriage
Cultural differences in naming

Differences between ORCID, ResearcherID, and the Scopus Author Identifier are shown below.

Comparison of Author Identifiers

	ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID)	ResearcherID	Scopus Author Identifier
What is it?	Persistent digital identifiers for researchers	Free alphanumeric author identifier, online community and search system	Automatically generated identifier number within Scopus
Integrated with...	Open, non-profit community effort that has partnered with multiple universities, commercial research organizations, national agencies, publishers and professional societies	Web of Knowledge	Scopus
Create your own profile?	Yes	Yes	No, but can request to merge profiles if you have multiple Author Identifiers
How do I add publications to my profile?	Import from partner organizations, e.g. Web of Science, Scopus Enter manually	Search Web of Knowledge, Web of Science or your EndNote Web library Upload RIS file	You can only request that changes be made to your profile
Features	Add external identifiers, e.g. ResearcherID, Scopus Author Identifier Link to other systems or profiles, e.g. Google Scholar, LinkedIn You choose what information to make public	Provides citation metrics for Web of Knowledge publications Registered and non-registered users can search for and view author profiles Labs tools allow you to view your collaboration and citing article networks You choose what information to make public	Provides citation metrics
Best used for...	Managing research activities and author identifiers in one place Grant and manuscript submissions: several publishers and funding organizations have implemented or are planning to implement ORCID	Organizing and tracking publications Allows others to easily locate your publications in Web of Knowledge databases	Ensures that your publications are properly attributed in Scopus Allows others to easily locate your publications in Scopus
Where can I get it?	Register for free at ORCID	Register for free at ResearcherID	Check profile at Scopus Follow these instructions for requesting corrections to your profile