ResearcherID
ResearcherID.com enables researchers to create stable personal identifiers to present their works and manage public presentation of their personal metrics.
Each individual identification (ID) number acts as a digital “calling card” that the researcher can place anywhere, such as a personal home page, a CV, or a university page. The identifier links to a personal workspace that automatically updates citation data, user-generated tags and keywords, and professional information that can be shared with the public or kept for personal monitoring. ResearcherID.com ensures an accurate record of a researcher’s output and attribution, providing a gateway for colleagues to pinpoint not only that researcher’s published work, but also the researcher as a potential collaborator.
“Researchers expressed to us a need for a place to manage their professional profile — it needed to be free, open to all their colleagues, yet with total control over their own privacy,” said Jim Pringle, vice president of product development at Thomson Scientific. “We’ve worked with key industry leaders to ensure that we have developed an open solution, and we look forward to sharing it with the entire research community both directly from ResearcherID.com and via a standard Web Services API.”
Designed as a web-based system, ResearcherID.com allocates an ID during a one-time registration which can be expressly associated with a researcher’s published works without confusion over nomenclature or any changes in institutional affiliations during one’s career.
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