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Author Identifiers

The author identifier links the author's work to the author's profile.

This is useful in cases where the author's name changes, when the author uses variants of their name, or multiple authors have the same name (e.g., John Smith).

Even if the author changes his/her field of research or institution, the works remain associated with that person.

ORCID ID

ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) helps manage grant recipients and reviewers by offering a registry of unique persistent identifiers for individual authors. This registry is built as an open, non-profit, community-driven system.

The ORCID registry is free and allows individuals to obtain an ORCID ID, manage their profile, and find other researchers.

ORCID may improve:

  • grant application process
  • project management and reporting, including tracking the ROI (return on investment)
  • accuracy of records
  • data exchange and compliance with mandatory publication of research results and articles
  • management of information on beneficiaries' research activities
  • cooperation with other research management systems

 

Access to the registry is free for individuals. Registered users receive a unique ORCID identifier. This is a 16-digit code, for example 0000-0002-2598-3635.

Organizations can create a membership and thus a profile, under which the records of individual ORCID identifiers of relevant registered users are linked. Organizations update ORCID records, receive updates from ORCID, and also register their employees and students, thereby ensuring that they are assigned an ORCID identifier.

ORCID records do not contain sensitive data. Their structure consists of: name, email, organization name, and description of research activities.

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RESEARCHERID

RESEARCHERID is a tool for uniquely identifying authors and managing their publications in the Web of Science database.

The ResearcherID identifier can be used to search for authors in Web of Science, similar to ORCID ID. Researchers create their own identifiers and register on the platform themselves; the process is free of charge.

The ResearcherID profile can be linked to the ORCID profile. First, you need to log in to your ORCID account and link it to your WoS ResearcherID profile. Both profiles are automatically synchronized; you only need to grant permission.

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SCOPUS AUTHOR IDENTIFIER

The Scopus Author Identifier is assigned when processing publication records into the Scopus database. The aim is to group all works by a given author into a single author profile, regardless of the variations in the name given in publications.

Scopus Author IDs are not created by the authors themselves, but by the Scopus source database. Authors can only pair their Scopus Author ID with their ORCID identifier or request corrections within Scopus Author ID (a typical error is, for example, the creation of duplicate profiles for a single author by Scopus).

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