Maximize Your Author Impact: Introduction

Increase the impact of your publications. Tips on how to promote your research and profile as a researcher and author.

Intro

This guide will go over how you can make your research and publications more accessible and reduce ambiguity between you and others. It will also compare four researcher/ author identifiers, plus provide a brief introduction to funding and other web profiles to consider.

Identity Tools

There are a variety of options for creating a unique identity:

Learn more about some of these options by clicking on their names to the left.

Comparison

 

Feature

ResearcherID

ORCID

Scopus Author ID

Google Scholar Citations

Persistent ID

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

User profile

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Publication list

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Citation metrics

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

User privacy controls

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Facilitates networking

Yes

No

No

Yes

Integrates with...

ORCID

ResearcherID

Scopus Author ID

ORCID

-

 

Reasons for Managing your Researcher or Author Identity

Researcher profiles and IDs can be used to:

  • differentiate your work from the work of other author's with similar names;
  • quickly and efficiently locate metrics such as citation counts and your h-index for all your publications;
  • promote your research to others

Reduce Author Ambiguity

Many authors have similar names. Author Identifiers distinguish between these names by assigning each author a unique number and grouping together all of the documents written by that author.

This feature is especially useful for distinguishing between authors who share very common names.

Additionally, author names can be formatted differently. For example, the same author could appear in one document as Lewis, M; in another as Lewis, M.J; and in another as Lewis, Michael. Researcher or Author Identifiers match the documents of this author and groups these name variants together so that authors, even if cited differently, are identified with their specific papers.

This helps you find and recognize an author, despite variations in name spelling.

Improve Research Impact

Establishing a unique researcher identity is an important step to improving your research impact.  There are a variety of options for creating a unique identity, with ResearcherID, ORCID and Scopus Author Identifier being highly recommended.

Manage Affiliation Changes

As you pursue opportunities at different organisations and institutions around the world throughout your career, you can ensure that all of your research outputs are still attributed correctly to you and that your work can be found by others.

Improve Administrative Efficiency

Institutions, publishers and funders expect to be able to make use of authors' unique identifiers in their workflows, reducing the amount of repetitive biographical information required when you submit your CV or manuscripts for publication, for example.