Author identifiers

It is essential to choose your author name and standardize your scientific signature. This will make your research output easier to find and enhance your visibility. There are different researcher identifiers providing a persistent coding to disambiguate yourself from other researchers with similar names.

Some identifiers are linked to technology and information business: Scopus and Web of Science have their own identifiers; Google Scholar also enable the creation of author profiles to register institutional affiliation and research output. Other are associated to independent initiatives: for example, IraLIS and ORCID. All of them are free.
 

ORCID

ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Non-profit organization that has developed a unique identifier for researchers. It has a series of advantages over others and for this reason it is succeeding in the international research community. See an example and consult How to create and update a researcher profile with ORCID (infographic). Learn more 

ResearcherID

Researcher ID

ResearcherID (Web of Science)
The Web of Science database has the ResearcherID to assign to each author a unique identifier. It is integrated on Publons and authors must register for it. See an example and consult How to update a researcher profile with Publons (infographic).

AuthorID

Logo Scopus

Author Identifier (Scopus)
Scopus identification system. It gathers the different variants of the same name and assigns an identifier to each author and institution. This identifier is automatically generated by the database. See an example and consult How to update a research profile with SCOPUS (infographic).

Google Scholar

Google Acadèmic

My Citations (Google Scholar)
Each author can create and modify their Google Scholar profile, including data from Google Scholar or importing them from other sources. Each profile has a URL used as an academic business card and as an identifier. See an example.

Iralis

IRALIS (International Registry of Authors-Links to Identify Scientists)

Standardization system of scientific authors' signatures. Each author introduces their own variants. It is mainly focused on Hispanic authors. You can search names.