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Also called author or scholar identifiers (IDs); author IDs are unique identifiers assigned to researchers to solve an ongoing issue - author name ambiguity, where authors can have the same or similar names but publish vastly different things, regardless of the format of that author's name in the publication (e.g., J. Smith; John Smith; John M. Smith). These IDs can also help when someone changes their name, moves institutions, or doesn't have a western-style name (first name, middle name, last name).
Why should I get an author ID?
Author IDs can follow you throughout your career, and keep track of work you have done - regardless of whether you change your name, move institutions, or even change the country you live in. They help connect you to multiple systems to make your research easier, and they help to make sure your work is properly attributed to you and not to someone else with the same or a similar name.
The Open Researcher and Contributor iD (ORCID) provides unique, persistent, non-proprietary identifiers for researchers, creators, and contributors of all types. Over 70 publishers are now requiring ORCID iDs with manuscript submissions, and grant funders are increasingly requiring ORCID iDs for grant proposals. By including your ORCID iD in publishing and funding workflows, you can ensure that your work and contributions will be accurately linked to you, and not accidentally credited to someone else. They are free to obtain, and once up and running, make it easy to connect with systems like CrossRef, Scopus, populate your SciENcv profile and so much more!
To learn more about why you should consider getting an ORCID iD, check out the short below video. You can also find out more by visiting the ORCID at UNLV LibGuide.
A Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier that connects you to your publications across the Web of Science ecosystem (e.g., Web of Science, Publons, and InCites) and provides the global research community with an invaluable index to author information. Web of Science Group products (Web of Science, Publons, InCites, EndNote) use a Web of Science ResearcherID to match and disambiguate researchers across products.
Having a Web of Science ResearcherID helps:
You can learn more about how to claim your Author Record and ResearcherID on the Clarivate help page.
Scopus data follows the simple model that articles are written by researchers who are affiliated with institutions. Powerful algorithmic data processing matches articles to existing author profiles with a high degree of accuracy based on name, email, affiliation, subject area, citations and co-authors. A profile is created automatically when two or more articles are linked to one name. The Scopus Author Identifier distinguishes among similar names by assigning each author in Scopus a unique number and grouping all of the documents written by that author.
To claim a profile, or request updates to your profile, you will need to use the Scopus Author Feedback Wizard which allows you, as the author, to:
You can connect your ORCID iD to your Scopus Author Profile using the Connect to ORCID feature, which will also allow you to import works from Scopus into your ORCID record.
A DOI is a digital identifier of an object, any object — physical, digital, or abstract. DOIs solve a common problem: keeping track of things. Things can be matter, material, content, or activities.
A DOI is a unique number made up of a prefix and a suffix separated by a forward slash. This is an example of one: 10.1000/182. It is resolvable using the DOI.org proxy server by displaying it as a link: https://doi.org/10.1000/182.
Designed to be used by humans as well as machines, DOIs identify objects persistently. They allow things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably. You know what you have, where it is, and others can track it too.
You can learn more at the DOI Foundation's Resources page.
A DMP ID is a unique persistent identifier for a data management plan. The exact format of the DMP ID can change depending on the minting authority used (e.g. DOI, ARK, etc.). A common way to obtain a DMPID is by using the DMPTool to create a data management and sharing plan.
Sign in to the DMPTool using your institutional affiliation with UNLV (your institutional email). Follow the steps in your selected template to create a DMPID and send the information to your ORCID record.
There are currently two identifiers unique to citations found in PubMed: the PubMed Identifier (PMID) and the PubMed Central Identifier (PMCID). The PMID is a "1- to 8-digit accession number with no leading zeros" (MEDLINE) assigned sequentially to every new citation added to PubMed from a MEDLINE journal. PMIDs are assigned to research articles as well as other documents published in indexed journals, including letters to the editor and opinion pieces. You will find the PMID at the bottom of each PubMed record. For PubMed citations that are also included full-text in PubMed Central, you will see a second identifier, the PMCID, listed after the PMID and beginning with the letters PMC.
You can learn more, including detailed instructions for searching using these identifiers in the PubMed guide created by the Stevens Institute of Technology.
RAiD is designed to address key challenges faced by researchers, research organizations, funders, infrastructure providers, and others in the research ecosystem—maintaining consistent and up-to-date information on projects throughout the research lifecycle.
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR makes it easy for anyone or any system to disambiguate institution names and connect research organizations to researchers and research outputs. ROR is the first and only organization identifier that is openly available (CC0 data available via an open REST API and public data dump), specifically focused on identifying affiliations in scholarly metadata, developed as a community initiative to meet community use cases, and designed to be integrated into open scholarly infrastructure. It is the default identifier supported in Crossref DOI metadata, DataCite DOI metadata, and ORCID.
In 2021 GRID became an integrated part of Dimensions and passed the torch to ROR for being the community driven research organization identifier. Read the shared announcement of the GRID and the ROR team further below. All previous GRID releases until September 2021 will remain openly available as CC0 on figshare, while the GRID team will now focus on curating organization data within Dimensions.
ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) is an ISO standard, in use by numerous libraries, publishers, databases, and rights management organizations around the world. It is used to uniquely identify persons and organizations or groups involved in creative activities, as well as public personas of both, such as pseudonyms, stage names, record labels or publishing imprints.