Web of Science ResearcherID, a unique identifier that associates researchers with their works in Web of Science, is now displayed on Web of Science Researcher Profile (formerly Publons). A Researcher Profile consists of four distinct sections, namely Profile Card, Metrics Panel, Publication Records and Peer Review Records. ResearcherID is at the top of the Profile Card, right underneath the author's name. It is automatically assigned to each Profile holder and can be used to search for publications by a researcher. Other sections on the Researcher Profile showcase a researcher's scholarly contributions and impact in publications, peer reviews and editorships.
Register or sign in to Web of Science to create or manage your own Researcher Profile, and share it with the persistent link http://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/[ResearcherID].
Click to view an example Researcher Profile
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Registering and Signing in the Web of Science
About Web of Science Researcher Profiles
Managing publication, peer review and editor records
(1)  Once logged in, click ">| MENU" to expand the left-hand sidebar to view "My Web of Science" |
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| (2) Click "Profile" and then "My records" to expand the record editing panel |
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| (3) Click "+ ADD" next to "Publications" to populate publications |
► Suggested publications: Publications matched by your email addresses and/or names are ready to be viewed and claimed under the tab "View my publications". To refine the search, you could provide more email addresses you have published with.
► Add publications by identifier: Publications can be imported by identifier search, including DOI, Web of Sceince accession number, PubMed ID, arXiv or Title.
► Add publications by file upload: Publications can be imported from a RIS, BibTex, or CSV file.
► Syc with ORCiD: Once you have connected ORCID iD with Web of Science Researcher Profile and indicated your preference for configuration, you can keep both profiles up to date and synchronized. Please refer to the guide Integrating and synchronizing ORCID with Web of Science Researcher Profile.
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| (4) Opt in/out of the automatic update of publications by Web of Science |
Claimed profiles with at least one Core Collection publication will be enrolled in receiving automatic updates of Core Collect and Preprint articles to their document list. You will receive an email notification and be directed to the publication page to view or reject the auto-added publications. You can opt out of receiving the updates via a tab "Publication Preferences" under Researcher Profile Settings.
You can opt-in to the automatic update and take note of its pros and cons, recommended practice and how CityU Scholars helps.
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| (5) Populate records of other types |
To add records of other types, such as peer reviews, editor records and editorial board memberships, similar to publications, you can click on "+ ADD" next to the record types and fill in the information required.
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| Opt-in to the automatic update of publications by Web of Science |
While the automatic update feature offers convenience, it also poses the risk of paper misattribution.
Pros:
- You don't need to keep track of whether or when Web of Science indexes your new publications.
- You can save the effort of adding new publications to your Web of Science Researcher Profile yourself.
Cons:
- Web of Science may wrongly add in publications by another author of the same or similar name in your profile, causing misattribution.
- The accuracy of your records or metrics in Web of Science can be compromised because of the misattribution.
You can reap the advantages of automatic publication updates without compromising the precision of your profile in regards to your publication records and metrics.
- Take note of the “Automatic Update” email notification that Web of Science sends to you.
- Upon the notification, login to your Web of Science personal account immediately to review the newly added publications.
By utilizing CityU Scholars, you can assist Web of Science in enhancing its author mapping and searchability, ensuring that the right publications are associated with your name and profile in its database.
- Join the University’s ORCID Creation and Integration Exercise (Guide for Faculty or Guide for Research Students) to integrate your ORCID account with CityU Scholars. This enables your ORCID publication list to receive automatic updates of validated research output records exported from CityU Scholars, on a daily basis during your service or study at CityU.
- Web of Science receives a daily data feed from ORCID. If a publication matches a record in Web of Science (with the ORCID account and the publication being visible to everyone), your ORCID will be added to the record in Web of Science within a few days. The metadata fields used to match works in ORCID and Web of Science include author, journal, article title, year, volume, page number and DOI. Although all fields are used to find a match, exact matching is not required for every field.
- Adding ORCID to your publications in Web of Science enables searching for your publications using your ORCID identifier.
Correcting author records
For a single author, there might be more than one author record in Web of Science. They were possibly registered by the author using different email addresses or created by the Web of Science algorithm. Moreover, there might be publication misattribution to author records. Sign in to your Web of Science account to make a correction request.
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Merge multiple author records
- From the researcher search results page, tick the checkbox of each author record containing publications by the same author. Then click "Merge Records".
- A pop-up message shows the steps to follow. Click "Get started: Select publications".
- Tick any publications not written by this author and click "Remove". If none need to be removed, click "Skip this step".
- On the "Author Record Correction Form", indicate your connection to this author (e.g. "This is me" or "I am/was a co-author"). Then click "Submit correction".
- A pop-up message acknowledges the receipt of your request. Wait for Web of Science to review and process the request. You will be notified by email whether the changes are accepted. Changes take a few days to show in Web of Science.
Remove publications from a single author record
- Click the author name to open the record. Then click "Remove publications".
- Tick any publications not written by this author. Click "Remove" and "Next: Correction Summary".
- On the "Author Record Correction Form", indicate your connection to this author (e.g. "This is me" or "I am/was a co-author"). Then click "Submit correction".
- A pop-up message acknowledges the receipt of your request. Wait for Web of Science to review and process the request. You will be notified by email whether the changes are accepted. Changes take a few days to show in Web of Science.
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| For Claimed Author Records (i.e. authors who have registered an account with Web of Science will have a Researcher Profile with a green tick next to their names) |
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Add publications
Currently, only the profile owner can correct claimed Researcher Profiles. You can refer to the above section Managing publication, peer review and editor records to populate publications. Or, open the unclaimed author record containing your publications and click "Claim my record". You will then be directed to a page to confirm which publications to add to your profile.
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For more information on ResearcherID and Researcher Profile, please refer to Web of Science's Knowledge Base.
