Researcher identification
During the research process, the information of individual
researchers and organizations is registered into various data systems
(HR systems, funders's systems, project management systems, publishers,
research information systems, publication registers and archives,
international publication archives, patent databases and partner
customership systems). Various scientific societies and communities also
handle information about researchers and organizations.
Figure & text: TUT Library http://scienceport.tut.fi/researchersupport/gainvisibility
ORCID researcher iD
Open Researcher and Contributor IDThe international ORCID identifier will provide you with a permanent
and unique digital identifier. It is a series of numbers that will
distinguish you from other researchers. There are currently 2.9 million
ORCID identifiers in use across the globe.
Thirteen Finnish research organisations and CSC – IT Center for
Science have joined the national ORCID consortium whose first membership
term begun on 1 June 2016. The Ministry of Education and Culture has
commissioned CSC to act as Consortium Leader.
ORCID researcher iD
- enables identifying researchers across organisations
- can also be linked to other types of researcher IDs. When this
feature is activated in the ORCID service, information about an author’s
publications will be automatically transferred from reference databases
(Web of Science, Scopus) to their ORCID profile. - enables searching publications in Web of Science and Scopus
Publisher based researcher identifiers and ISNI
The publisher based researcher identifiers make it easy to
extract publications by an author from the database in question.
Unfortunately, these identifiers only work in one database, so the
researcher needs multiple identifiers.
ResarcherID
ISNI, based on the ISO 27729 standard, is a system for unambiguously
identifying people or organizations owning scientific or creative works
or opuses.
extract publications by an author from the database in question.
Unfortunately, these identifiers only work in one database, so the
researcher needs multiple identifiers.
ResarcherID
- ResearcherID is integrated with Web of Science, making it is easy
to add publications to your own researcher account. You can create the
identifier yourself in the Web of Science -database or at www.researcherid.com. - You need to link your new Web of Science articles to your researcher account by choosing "Save to ResearcherID".
- Your ORCID account can be associated with your ResearcherID and data can be exchanged between these two.
- The Scopus author identifier distinguishes you from other authors
by assigning you a unique number and then grouping all your documents
together. - However, if your name has appeared in various ways during your
authoring career or you have changed affiliations at any point, your
publications may be spread over a number of different author profiles. - The easiest way to manage your profile is through the Scopus to ORCID wizard: http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/.
- Further details: Manage my Author Profile
ISNI, based on the ISO 27729 standard, is a system for unambiguously
identifying people or organizations owning scientific or creative works
or opuses.
Google Scholar author profile
Researchers can create a Google account and collect all their articles found in Google Scholar to "My Citations page".
Google Scholar profile
Google Scholar profile
- public or private
- a list of researchers´s own publications
- statistics of citations received by the publications and tracking of citations
- H-index of all the publications and five-year h-index
- i10-index, i.e. the number of publications with over 10 citations
- when searching by author in Google Scholar the public profile will be at the top of the search results and displayed as a link
Researcher visibility services
Researchers can share their results and publications in social
media / social networking sites and get feedback and visibility for
their work.
Altmetric tools
Altmetrics aim to highlight researcher online visibility.
Altmetric services link article downloads, tweets, likes and social
bookmarking information. Some altmetric services include also citations.
With regard to altmetric visibility, the so called hard disciplines
and articles published in esteemed international journals get the most
attention.
How to improve your visibility?
- Create a researcher identifier, for example ORCID iD.
- Use a consistent spelling of your author name in all publications.
- Use the standardised institutional affiliation University of Tampere in your publications.
- Choose your publication channels carefully, consider using Open Access channels (including self-archiving) when possible.
- Check your own publication information from international databases
and contact the service provider if you notice errors in your name or
contact information. - Discuss your research and share information about your publications in academic social networking sites.
- Join social networks for researchers, e.g. Academia.edu, ResearchGate and LinkedIn.
- Utilise social bookmarking with Mendeley, Zotero or CiteULike.
- Consider communicating information about your research via Twitter.
Affiliation
It is important that you use the standardised institutional affiliation University of Tampere
in your publications. The name of the faculty, the research centre, the
research programme etc. is not enough to indicate that the publication
belongs to our university (affiliation = University of Tampere).
International citation databases involve different name versions of
our university. That is why, our university publications are not always
connected to the University of TampereThe benefits offered by ORCID iD
- Many international scientific publishers have begun using ORCID in their own processes.
- A researcher can therefore link his/her ORCID identifier to an
article when submitting the manuscript to a journal, so it will
automatically transfer with the publication e.g. to the citation
indexing services of scientific publications (Web of Science, Scopus,
etc.). - One of ORCID’s goals is to facilitate the automatic transfer of the
researcher’s information between a variety of systems, so that the same
data doesn’t need to be entered in several different places. - ORCID identifier will follow the researcher during their entire
career, from one affiliation to another and from one country to another. - ORCID service enables the researcher to maintain a list of his/her
publications. The researcher can give his/her ORCID iD when applying for
a job or a grant instead of needing to collect his/her publication list
every time.
Researcher identifiers
Has your name changed or has your work ever been linked to someone else with the same name?
Researcher identifiers strive to resolve confusion arising from name
changes, researchers with the same name, or different ways of writing a
person’s name. You can choose either an international or a publisher
based identifier.
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