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Researcher Profiles, Identifiers, and Social Networks: Web of Science

Tips on how to promote your research and profile as a researcher.

Why Web of Science Researcher ID?

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Integrated with Web of Science (high impact journals)

Ensure correct attribution of your works

Get number of cited references to your works

Exchange data with ORCID

Limitations of Researcher ID:

Used by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) only.

Based on a limited number of publications.

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Finding an author's h-index with Web of Science

h-index:  The h-index, or Hirsch index, measures the impact of a particular researcher rather than a journal. "It is defined as the highest number of publications of a researcher  that received h or more citations each while the other publications have not more than h citations each (Schreiber, 2008a)." The h-index is included in Web of Science. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 5 had published 5 papers, each of which has been cited by others at least 5 times.

Web of Science Tutorials

Web of Science produces several short videos on the various features of their system.  

Follow the link to see instructions for author searching, citation analysis, and much more.

Creating your Researcher Profile

Go to Web of Science

 

1. If you already have a Web of Science account, log in. If not, click on the My Tools tab and choose Researcher ID.

 

2. Then click on Register and enter your email address.

 

3. Enter the information to complete the Web of Science account process.

4. Once you've created your Web of Science account, you will be redirected to the Researcher ID page to complete the process.

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By registering, you're helping to build a resource that standardizes and clarifies author information - strengthening the connections between you and your colleagues and making vital research more accessible to all.

Data Privacy: The information that you submit as part of this registration process and the information that you submit or that Thomson Reuters collects in the course of the use of your ResearcherID will be processed by Thomson Reuters in accordance with the ResearcherID End User License Agreement. Except where indicated, registration information will be viewable by default on your public profile page on the www.ResearcherID.com website. At anytime after registering, you can login to your account and choose to make some or all of your information private or to update any of your registration information.

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