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, via Publons. Corrections made in Publons will be automatically reflected in the Web of Science author record. The author record will be enriched with information from Publons, for example with your Peer review activities, picture and ORCID iD. Web of Science calls a claimed author record a 'researcher profile' - they can be recognized by the green check mark behind the name of the author.
To create a Publons profile: when you have a Web of Science account, you can log in to Publons with that account. If you don't have a Web of Science account, Publons offers several options to register, after clicking the button Create a Publons profile:
Next, you add publications to your Publons profile. There are several ways to add publications:
Please note: the information in Publons about Times cited, used to calculate the citation metrics, will only be gathered for publications added to your Publication List by using Web of Science.
Advantages of Publons / Web of Science ResearcherID:
Disadvantage:
TIP: A manual about how to create a Publons Profile / ResearcherID can be downloaded here.
An author record in Web of Science contains:
When the author record is claimed by the author (a researcher profile):
When the author record is algorithmically generated:
The Author Impact Beamplot is a visualization of the publications and their citation percentiles.
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 Publons account with your ORCID record, your ORCID iD will be visible in the Author Record in Web of Science.