RESEARCHER ID: AN UNIQUE IDENTIFIER
ByManjunath Angadi
INTRODUCTION
Science-increased number of journals both in
electronic & print version
 Open Access journals
 Territory Databases
 Web of Science
 Scopus
Exponential growth of indexed articles in these
databases
Ex: Knowledge is doubling once in two years
o Author identification.
In January, 2008- Thompson launched
ResearcherID
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WHAT IS RESEARCHER ID?
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ResearcherID (http://www.researcherid.com) is a website
which enables you to;
create a personalised research profile, including a
publications list, which can be easily maintained
receive a unique ResearcherID number, which
will display in records in Web of Science, and can
be used to eliminate author misidentification
generate citation metrics, such as the h-index or
average times cited, which can be used as a
quantitative measure of the impact of a
particular author
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increase recognition of your work (e.g. by integrating
your ResearcherID badge into your personal web page,
blog or electronic CV)
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increase exposure for your institution.
WHO IS IT FOR?
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Anyone who has published material
Those authors that have experienced confusion
because others with similar names or initials
Authors who have encountered inconsistent use
of initials and names in published works
WHY CHOOSE RESEARCHERID?
Registered participants have total control over
their profile and publication lists – both the
content and whether this information is made
private or freely available to the global research
community.
 Once registered, participants can build their
publication lists by searching Web of Science
search services, the EndNote Web online search,
or by uploading RIS files. Times Cited counts will
be automatically updated for all data added via
Web of Science.
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REGISTRATION
To get access to Researcher ID you must first be registered
Currently there are two ways to register for a
ResearcherID account.
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If you are a web of knowledge subscriber you
can register from the Web of Knowledge home
page
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And other one is you can request an invitation.
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A PERSONAL ACCOUNT SET UP IN WEB
KNOWLEDGE:
Sign in to Web of Knowledge and click on the My
ResearcherID link at the top of the page.
 Enter your details in the registration form
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WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
ACCESS RESEARCHERID AT HTTP://WWW.RESEARCHERID.COM AND
CLICK ON JOIN NOW IT’S FREE
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Enter your name and email address and click on
SUBMIT
 You will receive an email inviting you to register.
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Click on the link in the email and enter your
details in the registration form.
Once login, this page below will appear asking for
confirmation and will allow you to change the
temporary password
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CLICK ON SUBMIT REGISTRATION AND ACCEPT
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
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Your unique ResearcherID number is now displayed on the
screen. You will also receive it by email.
CONTI…
Click on the link to log in to ResearcherID. You
will be presented with a page that displays your
profile information and a URL which you can put
into web pages to provide a link to a list of your
publications once you have added them to your
profile
 Click on the Manage Profile link if you wish to
add an additional institution or other information
to your profile and to set your public / private
preferences, i.e. which information is available
for public view.
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ADD PUBLICATIONS
Any items that an author has published can be
added to their ResearcherID publication list
including journal articles, patents, conference
proceedings, grants, and more.
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Items added to the “MY PUBLICATIONS”
should be authored by the actual researcher to
provide a true representation of their scholarly
output.
TO Add your publications to your profile
 From your profile home page, click on the Add
link under “MY PUBLICATIONS” to the left of
the screen.
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ADD PUBLICATIONS
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There are Three ways to upload your publications
to ResearcherID
1.
Web of Knowledge
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EndNoteWeb
3.
RIS File
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WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
Click on Search Web of Knowledge
 Fill out the search criteria and click on SEARCH
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Select the articles that are your publications and
click on ADD SELECTION TO:MY
PUBLICATION: ADD
SEARCH THE WEB OF SCIENCE FOR YOUR PUBLICATIONS. CHECK THE BOX IN
FRONT OF YOUR PUBLICATIONS AND THEN CLICK ON THE RESEARCHERID
BUTTON.
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ADD PUBLICATIONS FROM ENDNOTE WEB.
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Click on the “Go to Endnote Web” linkin ”Add
To: My Publications” to add publication.
If you are not currently a user, or are not
currently signed in to EndNote Web you will be
prompted to register or log in.
If you are already logged into EndNote Web via
your integrated ISI Web of Knowledge or Web of
Science login, you will automatically be taken to
your “My References” page.
LOG-IN
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Registered, logged in EndNote Web users will be
taken to their “My References” page. From
there you can select existing references to add
to any of your 3 Publication Lists in
ResearcherID. Select the references you want to
add and choose the preferred ResearcherID
publication list in the “Add to group...” dropdown menu.
RIS FILE
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RIS is a standardized tag format developed by
Research Information Systems, Incorporated
(the format name refers to the company) to
enable citation programs to exchange data. It is
supported by a number of reference managers.
Many digital libraries, like IEEE Xplore, Scopus,
the
ACM
Portal,
ScienceDirect,
and
SpringerLink, can export citations in this format.
FORMAT
two letters, two spaces and a dash
TY - Type of reference (must be the first tag)
AB -Abstract
AU -Author
A2 - Secondary Author
CN - Call Number
DO -DOI
SP - Start Page
EP - End Page
ET - Edition
IS - Number
ER - End of Reference
TI - Title
UR - URL
VL – Volume
ER - End of Reference
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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE ARTICLE "LIQUID-CRYSTAL
NANOSCIENCE: AN EMERGING AVENUE OF SOFT SELF-ASSEMBLY.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, 2011, VOL.40, P306" WOULD BE
EXPRESSED IN THE RIS FILE FORMAT:
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Liquid-crystal nanoscience: an emerging avenue of soft selfassembly
A1 - Bisoyi, Hari Krishna
A1 - Kumar, Sandeep
Y1 - 2011
SP - 306
EP - 319
JF - Chemical Society Reviews
JO - Chem. Soc. Rev.
VL - 40
IS - 1
PB - The Royal Society of Chemistry
SN - 0306-0012
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B901793N
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MANAGE PROFILE
If you have made a mistake, to delete publications
from your profile page click on “Manage Profile”,
select the incorrect publication and click on
DELETE
Here you can:
 Change your email address
 Change your password
 Select keywords that describe your work
 List past and present institutions
 Make your publication list public or private
Keeping your ResearcherID up to date
When your new publications are added to the Web of
Science you need to update your ResearcherID
publication list.
 Search the Web of Science for your new publication.
Check the box in front of your publication and then click
on the ResearcherID button.
 You may find it useful to set up a Search Alert on the
Web of Science so that every time one of your
publications is added to the Web of Science you will
be notified in an email. This will remind you to add
the publication to ResearcherID. To set up a Search
Alert in the Web of Science – click on the Search
History tab after doing an author search for your
publications.
RESEARCHER ID LABS
RESEARCHERID LABS is an interactive
environment that facilitates further
exploration, promotion and collaboration
amongst researchers. The Labs environment is
most useful after a publication list has been built,
and includes the following features:
 ResearcherID Badge
 Collaboration Network
 Citing Articles Network
RESEARCHERID BADGE
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Advertise a member's ResearcherID profile on
your Web page or Blog. The Badge creates a
hovering display of recent publications, and
allows viewers to also link to the member's full
profile in ResearcherID
STEPS
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Select a Badge Type
Click on the "Generate Badge Code" button.
Copy the code
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COLLABORATION NETWORK
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The Collaboration Network graphs/map
displays information from the papers the
researcher has written. The data is gathered by
extracting data values from the Web of Science
records in the field that you selected from the
field menu
Only items on the researcher's publication list that were
added from Web of Science are used to generate data for the
graphs/map.
A maximum of 50 publications from Web of Science on the
researcher's publication list (sorted by publication date) are
used to generate the data for the graph/map.
For the graphs, the top 20 authors, categories,
countries/territories, institutions, or years (based on count)
are displayed.
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CITING ARTICLES NETWORK
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The Citing Articles Network graphs/map displays
information from the papers that cited the
publications the researcher has written. Using
Web of Science, we find the citing articles for
publications on the researcher's publication list.
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BENEFITS
Name ambiguity is a recurring issue that impacts
research accuracy and quality, career
advancement and tenure, global collaboration
among researchers, and identification and
attribution of funding for institutions and
individual authors alike.
By assigning unique identifiers to registered
participants, ResearcherID helps to solve the
common problem of author misidentification. But
that’s not all ResearcherID does, and it’s not a
tool only for published authors.
CONTI…
Accur at e i dent i f i cat i on:
 A system-generated unique identifier ensures your
work is correctly attributed to you
 Provides a way for your institution to properly
measure your performance
 Find your colleagues' work easily
Organize and Manage:
 Manage your publication list and professional profile
online, in one place
 An online publication list allows others easy access to
your body of work
 Listing previous institutions in your profile helps
others find you as you move throughout your career
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Increase Visibility & Recognition:
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Include your ResearcherID number in your email signature
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ResearcherID badge:
Can be placed in almost any online environment (webpage, blog, etc.)
to showcase recent publications
 Links people directly to your profile and full publication list in
ResearcherID
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Measure Performance:
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Personal metrics like times cited counts and H-index quantify
your performance
Citing Articles and Collaboration Networks tools in the Labs show
the reach of your work
WEAKNESSES
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Researchers responsible for updating relevant
information and retrospectively and prospectively
linking publications to their number
CONCLUSION
ResearcherID is a helpful tool offered by Web of Knowledge of
Thomson Reuters to manage intellectual assets meaning
published works of a researcher. ResearcherID provides the
global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community
with an invaluable index to accurate author identification
and information. By assigning a unique identifier to each
author who participates, ResearcherID expressly associates
each researcher with his or her published work –
standardizing and clarifying author names and citations
and making information searches more straightforward
and relevant.