Professional Identity Tools
ORCID
(Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
is an independent, non-profit, community-driven organization that provides unique, persistent identifiers (ORCID iDs) for researchers in all fields.
ORCID iDs:
- resolve name ambiguity
- integrate your work in the digital scholarly ecosystem
- will make it possible to create an automatically updated list of your publications (if: you include your ORCID iD when submitting manuscripts; enable the Auto-Update feature; publishers allow/require ORCID iDs as part of manuscript submission, as increasing numbers are doing).
HOW TO GET ONE:
- Go to ORCID and click “REGISTER" to obtain an ORCID iD.
- Use the search & link wizards to add your works (publications and other scholarship)
- Use the search & link wizards to list funding you have received
- All aspects of your ORCID record are entirely under your control.
MORE INFO & Recommendations:
- Include your ORCID iD when submitting manuscripts (where possible/required)
- Link other IDs you have to your ORCID iD (Web of Science Reseacher ID, Scopus Author ID, Loop profile, etc.).
- Consider unifying the “beyond the PDF” aspects of your scholarship (Google Scholar Profile, Twitter account, blog, FigShare, GitHub, ImpactStory, etc.) by listing them in the “Websites” section of your ORCID iD.
- Include your ORCID iD on your: departmental web page/profile, C.V., email signature, twitter profile, grants, and anywhere else you provide a list of your work.
- Publishers using or requiring ORCID IDs
Google Scholar Profile
Create a profile listing your publications, sortable by year, or times cited.
- shows up at the top of results when your name is searched in Google Scholar
- increases visibility of your work
- name disambiguation: clearly indicates which publications are yours
- provides citation count, h-index, i10-index, list of co-authors
HOW TO GET ONE:
- Go to Google Scholar Profiles and sign in with your Google account.
- You will be asked for your name, UC Davis email, affiliation, etc.
- Google Scholar will automatically suggest publications to add to your profile. Select the ones that are yours. Be sure to make your profile public.
- Add your research interests as Areas of Interest, and a web page, if you wish.
MORE INFO & Recommendations:
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See Google Profiles SETUP and QUESTIONS for how to add missing publications and fix other problems.
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To find Google Scholar Profiles for other UC Davis Researchers:
Search Google for: “Verified email at ucdavis.edu” TOPIC -label [replace “topic” with subject/topic of interest]
Altmetrics Bookmarklet
Use the free Altmetrics Bookmarklet to track the social medial impact of articles.
- after installing, click the bookmarklet while on an article's webpage
- the Altmetrics Donut will appear, which indicates how much and what type of social media attention an article has received.
- donut links to a summary page with links to all social media referencing the article.
HOW TO GET ONE:
- Download the free Altmetrics Bookmarklet browser tool
- Register and add the bookmarklet to your browser
- Go to the publisher page for an article, click the bookmarklet tool in your browser and the Almetric Donut will appear
- Click on the donut for a detailed page listing social media impact of the article (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, news coverage, blogs, Dimensions, etc).
MORE INFO & Recommendations:
- FAQ for Altmetric Bookmarklet
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How the Altmetric Donut works
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FYI: Altmetrics sells access to three products: Explorer, Embeddable badges, Altmetric API. These are widely used by publishers.
CRediT
(Contributor Roles Taxonomy)
The CRediT Taxonomy is a high-level classification of the roles that contribute to published research output. It was created to:
- provide transparency to all contributions to scholarly published research output
- improve systems of credit, attribution, and accountability.
HOW TO USE IT:
- PUBLISHERS: Many publishers already use CRediT as part of manuscript transmission.
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RESEARCHERS: can implement CRediT by simply including a statement within their publications using appropriate roles to identify contributors
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Examples of CRediT used in publications: PLOS ONE 12(10): e0185809 | JGR Earth Surface, 2022, 127(9) (click on author) | J. of Clinical Epidemiology, 2022, vol 146, pg77 (pg 1 of pdf)
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Publisher guidelines for using CRediT: AIP | Cell Press | Elsevier | PLOS | Royal Society of Chemistry | Sage | Wiley | Wolters Kluwer
MORE INFO & Recommendations:
Recommendations for applying the CRediT taxonomy:
- List All Contributions: all contributions should be listed, whether they are from those formally listed as authors or individuals named in acknowledgements;
- Multiple Roles Possible: individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors;
- Degree of Contribution Optional: where multiple individuals serve in the same role, the degree of contribution can optionally be specified as ‘lead’, ‘equal’, or ‘supporting’;
- Shared Responsibility: corresponding authors should assume responsibility for role assignment, and all contributors should be given the opportunity to review and confirm assigned roles;
- Make CRediT Machine Readable: CRediT tagged contributions should be coded in JATS XML v1.2 (4, 27, 28).
ResearcherID
ResearcherID is a unique identifier scheme developed by Thompson Reuters/Clarivate and used in Web of Science as well as being compatible with other ID schemes.
A ResearcherID can be created by two different methods:
- when a researcher creates a Web of Science researcher profile
- through algorithmically generated author record created by the Web of Science database.
HOW TO GET ONE:
- Click on the Researcher Profile icon in Web of Science
- follow the instructions for setting up your Researcher Profile
MORE INFO & Recommendations:
- Web of Science Help for Researcher Profiles
Scopus Author ID
SCOPUS is a database of literature from all fields, produced by Elsevier. The database automatically assigns unique ID numbers to authors. These IDs help SCOPUS distinguish between similarly-named authors as well as helping to group all the documents by an author together.
HOW TO GET ONE:
- If you have publications indexed by SCOPUS, you have automatically been assigned a SCOPUS author ID number.
- You can check this by going to SCOPUS and entering your information.
- If you find errors, use the SCOPUS Author Feedback Wizard to correct your author details