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1. www.le.ac.uk/library
Don’t lose credit for your research!
Ian Rowlands
University Library
Research Festival 2014 Research Bytes 4

2. The problem

3. • 1.8 million peer-reviewed journal articles published
each year … that’s one paper every 18 seconds!
• 1.5 million researchers currently publish in peer-
reviewed journals
• 350 million people share five surnames
(Lee, Zhang, Wang, Nguyen, Garcia)
• Your name is probably not unique

4. Some information identifiers
ISBN
ISSN
DOI
Coming soon
Institutional identifiers
Funding body identifiers

5. Why are researcher identifiers needed?
• Most names are not unique (“John Smith”)
• Names change due to marriage, etc.
• Transliteration from other alphabets or character
sets creates name variants
• People make spelling errors (or propagate them)
when they cite the literature
• There are cultural differences in name order

6. Name variants in Scopus
Artigas, María Soler
Artigas, M. Soler
Artigas, Maria Soler
Soler Artigas, María
Soler Artigas, M.
Soler Artigas, Maria

7. Name variants in Scopus
Artigas, María Soler
Artigas, M. Soler
Artigas, Maria Soler
Soler-Artigas, María
Soler Artigas, M.
Soler Artigas, Maria

8. What are researcher identifiers?
Persistent unique digital identifiers
(numeric or alphanumeric codes)
associated with a particular author.
e.g. Rowlands, Ian (A-3519-2012)

9. Why use researcher identifiers?
• Make sure all your outputs are associated with you
• More accurate citation counts, h-index and other
measures of impact
• Find all your/others work easily

10. Researcher identifiers
for the big citation databases
• Web of Science (Researcher ID)
• Scopus (Author ID)

11. How do they work?
Scopus and Web of Science use algorithms that
automatically assign papers to a unique author
identity.
They work by clustering papers based on author names
and addresses and patterns of citation and co-
authorship …

12. Scopus author search

13. Problems with the algorithmic approach
Identity splitting
your papers may be allocated to more than one cluster
Identity clumping
your papers may be merged with someone of a similar name

14. It can go wrong …
Nicholas, David Bruce
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Author ID: 24562174700
Nicholas, D.B., Hendson, L., Reis, M.D.
Connection vs disconnection: Examining culturally competent care in the neonatal
intensive care unit
(2014) Social Work in Health Care 53 (2) pp 135 – 155.
doi: 10.1080/00981389.2013.864377
Jubb, M., Rowlands, I., Nicholas, D.
Value of libraries: Relationships between provision, usage, and research outcomes
(2013) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8 (2) pp 139 – 152.

15. Don’t lose credit for your research!

16. Scopus
Web of
Science
ORCID
Scopus ID:23082487000
Researcher ID: F-3064-2011
Researcher ID: A-3519-2012
Proprietary IDs
Universal ID
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8831-540X

17. How do I do make it happen?
1. Check your Scopus author record and profile and
tidy up if necessary
2. Check your Web of Science author record and
profile and tidy up where necessary
3. Set up an ORCID identifier and enable sharing with
Scopus and Web of Science (and vice versa)
4. Add your ORCID identifier to your IRIS profile

18. Scopus author feedback wizard
www.scopusfeedback.com

19. You will need to create a Web of Science account to
have control over your ResearcherID
Web of Science: ResearcherID tool

20. Web of Science: ResearcherID tool