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Research

What is ResearcherID?

ResearcherID is a unique identifier offered by Clarivate to facilitate researchers' management of their publication lists, and enable citation tracking within their Web of Science Researcher Profile. Registered as well as non-registered users can search the ResearcherID Registry to view profiles and find potential collaborators.

Further information and training resources can be found via the links below:

Benefits

Having a ResearcherID gives you the following benefits:

  • Accurate author identification
  • Import publications from ORCiD
  • Publications and citations can be shown next to verified peer reviews, journal editorships, dissertation or thesis, awarded grants, and preprints.
  • Visualisation tools provide a picture of publication and citation data, offering insight into scholarly impact
  • User privacy controls
  • Generate a CV

Limitations

ResearcherID has the following limitations:

  • Need to add publications that are not indexed by Web of Science manually or import them from another source

Other IDs

ResearcherID integrates with ORCID.

You can exchange data between ResearcherID and ORCID, including your profile information and your publication list. View this tutorial to see how it works.

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