Course Research Impacts: YOU in Web of Science

Web of Science creates Author Records, using an algorithm approach and human curation. When you have at least one publication in Web of Science, an author record, including a Web of Science ResearcherID, will be automatically created for you. A Web of Science ResearcherID is a unique identifier that differentiates researchers in the Web of Science.

You can search these records in the Researchers tab. It's possible that multiple author records have been created for you or that some publications are linked to another researcher. 

How can you make sure the information about you and your publications is correct in Web of Science? You can claim your author record. Web of Science calls a claimed author record a 'Web of Science Researcher Profile' - they can be recognized by the green check mark behind the name of the author.

• Open the Researchers tab 
• Search by name
• In the results list, click your name
• Click the button Claim my record 
• Enter your email address
• Click Sign In if you have an account or Continue to register.

To create your Web of Science Researcher Profile you need a Web of Science account, that account is also used to save queries and create alerts. If you already have an account, click Sign In if you have an account, otherwise click Continue to register and fill in the form.

Advantages of claiming your author record: 

• You know your own publications best, so you can make sure only your publications are found (and not those of a researcher with the same name by chance).
• Some Citation Metrics are calculated for you, based on your publications and the citations to these publications within Web of Science.
• When you have publications covered in Web of Science but not covered in Scopus and/or without a DOI, like book reviews and meeting abstracts, creating a Web of Science Researcher Profile is the way to add these publications to your ORCID record. 
• Some publishers work with Web of Science to give recognition to their peer reviewers. You can add your peer review activities via your profile to your ORCID record (see the EUR ORCID LibGuide for more information). 
• You can express interest in reviewing for journals via the Peer reviews section of your profile.

Disadvantage:

• In April 2023, Web of Science introduced automatic updates to claimed profiles. You will receive email updates when publications are added to your profile. Before April 2023, a new publication was added to a second author record - the researcher had to keep their record up to date themselves. This is why many researchers have multiple profiles in Web of Science. 

TIP: A manual about how to create your Web of Science Researcher Profile can be downloaded here.

An author record in Web of Science contains:

• Name, name variants (published names) and affiliations (published organizations)
• Information about the type of author record: algorithmically generated or claimed by the author (green check mark)
• Web of Science ResearcherID
• When added by the researcher: ORCID iD, with a link to the ORCID record
• List of publications in Web of Science Core Collection. When the researcher has publications not indexed in the Core Collection, for example preprints, then can be added to the list by marking 'Include publications not indexed in Core Collection'.

When the author record is claimed by the author (a researcher profile):

• Picture 
• Review awards 
• Peer review tab: Overview of the journals the author reviewed for
• Publication metrics, including the number of publications, citations and H-index; Peer review metrics; Author Impact Beamplot Summary and the Author Position (is the author the first, last or corresponding author in his/her publications?). When you click the button Open dashboard you can see the full Author Impact Beamplot, the Geographic Citation Map and detailed peer review metrics. 
• Co-authors.

When the author record is algorithmically generated:

• Author Impact Beamplot tab 
• Publication metrics, including the number of publications, citations and H-index; Author Impact Beamplot Summary and the Author Position (is the author the first, last or corresponding author in his/her publications?)

The Author Impact Beamplot is a visualization of the publications and their citation percentiles.

• The citation percentile measures the number of citations for an article against a benchmark of similar papers (in terms of field, publication year and document type). An article with no citations has a percentile of 0, and the article with the most citations has a percentile score of 100. The beamplot contextualizes the articles of a researcher, showing changes over the course of a career. 
• Also included are the annual percentile median - the average citation percentile of all publications from the same year - and the overal citation percentile median of all publications in the beamplot. More information about the beamplot is available here and in this video.

Tip: Do you need a link to a Web of Science author record? Instead of using the URL of the page, you can create a URL containing the ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/[ResearcherID]. This will redirect to the Web of Science author record.

ORCID is an initiative to solve the author name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers, the ORCID ID. With this ID you get an ORCID record: there you can make the connections between the ORCID iD and your works, affiliations, funding etc. ORCID also creates open and transparent linking mechanisms between ORCID and other current author ID schemes, so that data can be added in an easy way.

TIP: check the EUR ORCID LibGuide for more information about ORCID iDs and records. 

Web of Science uses the public ORCID API to add ORCID iDs to publications. When you add a publication with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to your ORCID record and make that publication 'visible for everyone', Web of Science will automatically display the ORCID iD in the section 'View Web of Science ResearcherID and ORCID'. In Web of Science you can use the field 'Author Identifier' to search using an ORCID iD. 

When you've linked your Web of Science Researcher Profile with your ORCID record, your ORCID iD will be visible in the Author Record in Web of Science.