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When publishing an article, consider how unique your name is at your institution or nationally at the research level. Databases such as Web of Science and Scopus attempt to connect your publications together for impact and h-index calculations. However, the more common your name is, the more difficult it can be to distinguish you from other authors. When publishing an article, consider using not only your first name, but your second name or first initial of your second name to help disambiguate your name from other researchers.
Some databases such as Web of Science and Scopus assign unique author IDs to help connect articles from one author. However, these author IDs are unique to the specific database, and they may not completely unit all your publications together under one ID if you belong to multiple departments or have worked at multiple institutions.
Selected Author IDs
Product | Type | Registration | Scope/Limitations |
Open Identifiers | |||
ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) |
From ISNI International Agency; ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certified | ISNI gets data from many sources. Search existing IDs on the search page. Apply for an ISNI. |
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Proprietary Identifiers | |||
Proprietary - From Thomson Reuters |
Fill out the web form, then you'll get an email registration to obtain an ID. |
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Scopus Author Identifier | From Elsevier | Identifier automatically assigned to all authors indexed in Scopus |
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Google Scholar Citations | From Google |
From Google Scholar click My Citations and login to your Google account. After entering information into your profile Google will retrieve articles likely to be authored by you. Articles can then be added to your profile (in groups and/or individually.) |
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Repository Identifier | |||
arXiv Author IDs | From arXiv |
Used to accurately identify contributors to arXiv, an electronic archive of research articles in the sciences maintained by the Cornell University Library. arXiv authors opt-in to create an author ID on the create an author identifier page. |
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