Researcher Identity is aimed at establishing and gathering researchers' academic experience and a list of their works, to save the time of importing resumes and works repeatedly in different places, and to promote the visibility of their research results. Generally, a researcher is associated with a unique identifier to avoid confusions with their names (e.g., persons with same name and surname).
This section introduces four Researcher Identity service platforms: ORCID, Publons, Google Scholar, and Scopus. Researchers can apply to establish their profile on ORCID, Publons, Google Scholar. Scopus automatically generates a researcher's profile.
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is an open non-profit organization. Researchers register online to apply for a unique identifier (16-digit ID), which helps them to compile a complete list of their research activities (including articles, patents, and performances). A number of journal publishers have incorporated ORCID account as one of their login methods or a required or optional field in the submission process. In Web of Science and Scopus, you can enter an ORCID ID to search for works quickly and collect complete lists, and to correctly calculate the number of times a work is cited.
Publons is a research identity service provided byClarivatewhich also owns Web of Science (SCI & SSCI). ResearchID is an identifier unique to a researcher. In addition to providing resumes and lists of publications, Publons also keeps a record of your peer reviews, highlighting reviewers' academic contribution.
Elsevier's comprehensive citation index and academic indicator database Scopus automatically establishes a researcher's profile. If you find errors in your profile, you can request online to merge your account or add/delete a paper.
Google Scholar is a widely used academic search engine that indexes the widest range of journal articles. However, Google Scholar puts high weight on citation counts. Citation indicators it currently provides include the number of citations and web links to articles, H index, i10 index, etc.