Researcher IDs like Researcher ID (Web of Science), Scopus ID (Elsevier), and ORCID provide persistent digital identifiers that distinguish researchers and link them to their professional activities and publications. These IDs help solve author ambiguity issues, allow researchers to track citations and collaborate. Publications from Researcher ID, Scopus, and Google Scholar can be imported into an ORCID profile to consolidate a researcher's work.

1. • Researcher Identifiers
• Susanne Noll
July 2016

2. Some general notes on researcher IDs
Researcher ID (Thomson
Reuters)
attempts to solve author
ambiguity problem within
the scholarly research
community.
enables researchers to
manage their publication
lists, track their times
cited counts and h-index
identify potential
collaborators and avoid
author misidentification
ORCID compliant
showcase your
publications from a single
one account
SCOPUS ID (Elsevier)
is another identifier
used specifically by the
Scopus database and
has many of the same
features
ORCID provides a
persistent digital
identifier that
distinguishes a
researcher from every
other researcher and,
through integration in
key research
workflows such as
manuscript and grant
submission, supports
automated linkages
between the
researcher and
her/his professional
activities ensuring
that her/his work is
recognized.

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4. Orcid
• ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers
and supports automated linkages between you and your research activities.
• Once registered in ORCID, you can import the papers from ResearcherID (Web of Science)
and Scopus:
• Login to your ORCID record.
• Under Works section
• Click on "+Add works" and then "Search & link".
• Follow the on screen prompts to send your papers to ORCID.
• Importing publications from Google Scholar to ORCID:
• Login to your ORCID record
• Under Works section
• Click "+Add works" and then "Import BibTeX"
• Follow these instructions: http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/390530
• You can also search for and add papers manually:
• Login to your ORCID record.
• Under Works section
• Click "+Add works" under the Works section of your profile.
• Review the search results or enter information manually to add papers to your profile.
• Using your ORCID ID:
• Include your ID on web pages and manuscript submissions.

5. Researcher ID• By using the MyResearcherID feature in Web of Science (Web of Knowledge), researchers are
assigned an individual ID number that stays with them, regardless on institutional affiliation,
thus allowing their research to be more easily tracked.
– Once your MyResearcherID is created, your publications listed in the Web of Science database
are added to your profile - thus ensuring accuracy in tracking your publication history and
making it faster to track how your work is cited.
• Publications can be added to ResearcherID from Web of Knowledge by selecting the “I Wrote
These Publications” button.
– How to export Web of Science publications into ORCID?
• Login or register for ResearcherID
– Click on ResearcherID
• Select the appropriate action: To associate your ORCID with your ResearcherID account
– Click Continue
• Login to ORCID
– Click Authorise for the data exchange between the two systems. This will return you to
ResearcherID
• Decide “What data would you like to exchange between ResearcherID and ORCID?” e.g.
Profile ID, Send ResearcherID publications into my ORCID account, or Retrieve ORCID
publications into my ResearcherID account
– Select: Send ResearcherID publications to my ORCID account.
• Click Send. This will send 100 publications at a time.
– Grants & patents are not at the moment accepted by ORCID
• Delete duplicates
– ORCID does not track citations. Times Cited will not display in ORCID.

6. Scopus ID
• Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes between similar names by assigning
each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping together all of the
documents written by that author.
• For more information see Scopus Author Identifier.
• How to import Scopus publications into ORCID?
• Login to your ORCID record.
• Click on "Import Research Activities" and then "Scopus to ORCID".
• Follow the on screen prompts to send your Scopus ID and papers to
ORCID.
• Click Authorise
• Select your Scopus profiles
• At Scopus, it is easy for researchers to freely import their research papers
to ORCID through a direct link on the author detail page, shown as follows:
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7. • How to import Google Scholar publications
into ORCID
• ORCID has created a tool that allows you to
import citations from BibTeX (.bib) files into
your ORCID record, including files exported
from Google Scholar and other popular
citation management tools.
• http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/artic
les/390530