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Don’t lose credit for your research!Ian RowlandsUniversity LibraryResearch Festival 2014 Research Bytes 4
The problem
• 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
Some information identifiers
ISBN
ISSN
DOI
Coming soon
Institutional identifiers
Funding body identifiers
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
Name variants in Scopus
Artigas, María Soler Artigas, M. Soler Artigas, Maria Soler
Soler Artigas, María Soler Artigas, M. Soler Artigas, Maria
Name variants in Scopus
Artigas, María Soler Artigas, M. Soler Artigas, Maria Soler
Soler-Artigas, María Soler Artigas, M. Soler Artigas, Maria
What are researcher identifiers?
Persistent unique digital identifiers (numeric or alphanumeric codes)
associated with a particular author.e.g. Rowlands, Ian (A-3519-2012)
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
Researcher identifiers for the big citation databases
• Web of Science (Researcher ID)
• Scopus (Author ID)
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 …
Scopus author search
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
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.
Don’t lose credit for your research!
Scopus
Web of Science
ORCIDScopus ID:23082487000
Researcher ID: F-3064-2011Researcher ID: A-3519-2012
Proprietary IDs
Universal ID
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8831-540X
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
Scopus author feedback wizardwww.scopusfeedback.com
You will need to create a Web of Science account to have control over your ResearcherID
Web of Science: ResearcherID tool
Web of Science: ResearcherID tool