ORCID
The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a 16-digit identifier which gives researchers a persistent, unique code to distinguish their scientific production, providing a space for registering their work, and if they choose, sharing it.
This open initiative (for registering individual researchers) began in late 2009, supported by leading publishers (Nature Publishing Group, Elsevier, Hindawi, etc.) and research institutions (CERN, MIT, CalTech, etc.).
Advantages of ORCID for researchers:
It identifies their academic contribution and intellectual production.
It lets researchers log in with their individual IDs in Scopus, WoS (Web of Science) and CrossRef, and transfer their publication data automatically from these portals to ORCID.
Each researcher registered on ORCID can add academic data and links to their own websites and blogs.
It simplifies the task of evaluating research.
It integrates the ORCID identifier in working cycles, such as sending articles to publishers for publication.
ResearcherID / Publons
ResearcherID / Publons is a Web of Science (WoS) portal where researchers can unify variants of their names and gather their publications under a personal identifier (ID). ResearcherID does not standardize names on the WoS, but it enables researchers to group their variant names and their work under their unique identifier.
Advantages of ResearcherID for researchers:
They can manage their profiles and link them to their articles.
It facilitates the visibility of researchers, access to their publications and indexes of citations.
It offers an overview of the total production of an author.
It displays a link to the complete entry when logging in from WoS.
It generates analyses of citations for publications entered from WoS.
Scopus Author Identifier
Author ID o Scopus Author ID is the author identifier on the Scopus platform which can unify the different ways a researcher's name has been recorded, and group all their documents.
Advantages of Scopus Author ID for researchers:
The profile is created automatically when articles appear on Scopus.
It lists their publications on Scopus, with the list of references they cite and those which cite them within the database.
It calculates the h-index of the author with the publications indexed on Scopus since 1970.
It lets them export the information in CVN format.
Offers multiple graphs to show metrics of citations, indexes, etc.
Google Scholar Citations
GSC or Google Scholar Citations lets authors create a personal profile on Google Scholar and track citations of their publications, especially if they publish in journals which are not indexed by WoS (Web of Science) or Scopus.
Quick to configure and easy to maintain, with automatic or manual update of publications at any time.
Making the profile public so that it can appear in the Google Scholar results.
Verifying who cites the researcher’s publications.
Creating a graph of citations and calculating statistics on the citations that will be updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations of the work.
Adding groups of related articles.
Iralis
IraLIS (International Registry of Authors-Links to Identify Scientists) is a system for standardizing the names of scientific authors in order to create an academic registry.
It is intended to:
Make authors aware of the importance of their name for correct citations, and thus be able to recover their published work from throughout their careers.
Draw up standard naming criteria for correct indexing and to distinguish between authors with the same name.
Produce a database with all the name variants used by each author.
Run automatic bibliographic searches using the variant names.
