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Research Impact and Metrics: Author Identifiers

ORCID - Open Researcher and Contributor ID

It is a 16-digit number and is associated with an ORCID profile where you can maintain a list of your scholarly outputs. You can choose to make your profile public, private, or limited access only. Maintaining an accurate ORCID profile allow you to get full credit for all your research outputs: 

  • make your work more discoverable which increases your research visibility and impact
  • reduces misattribution of your work to someone else, thus ensuring that you receive full credit for your work
  • improves your citation rates by linking your works to a single name
  • you can also link up your Scopus Author ID and Research ID under your profile

A Scopus ID is a unique identifier automatically assigned to authors whose publications are indexed in the Scopus database.

Multiple Scopus author IDs can arise due to author name ambiguity and other factors, such as prior affiliations. These multiple IDs lead to identity splitting and different publication clusters, potentially affecting the accuracy of an author’s bibliometric data and the discoverability of their works.

Research ID https://researchid.co/

ResearchID presents a solution to researchers to create and update the profile with minimum efforts. ResearchID consolidates multiple research profiles and presents one-stop free individual webpage listing that includes all publications and achievements from multiple sources. ResearchID allows researchers to claim and showcase publications to collaborators while minimizing the manual updates.

No manual update to publications required, just submit your Scopus Author ID for list of publications and Google Scholar URL for citations, h-index, i-10 index.