Don't lose credit for your research!

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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