1. Researcher Wise Seminar Series #2
Author Identifiers and Researcher Networks
Emma Richardson
Research Support Services Librarian
Date

2. What do you see when you Google yourself?

3. Identifying
Aggregator
Authoring
Presentation
Sharing
What do all these researcher networks and identifiers do for researchers?
Networking
Websites
Tracking
Researching
Collaborating

4. ResearcherID & Scopus Author ID
ORCiD
Owner
Web of Science / Thomson Reuters
Scopus / Elsevier
Independent organisation
How to sign up
Have to sign up
Automatically allocated
Merging identifiers
No way to merge – keep your ORCiD up to date
Multiple IDs need to be merged with ORCiD
One identifier to rule them all

5. Why get an ORCiD?
A unique identifier that connects you with your research contributions and affiliations
Myorcid.auckland.ac.nz

6. Why get an ORCiD?

7. ORCID Joint Statement of Principle
“As a matter of principle we:
Strongly encourage the use of ORCID iD across the research and science system
Commit to support the use of ORCID iD as a common researcher identifier across New Zealand’s research and science system.”
Tertiary Education Commission, Health Research Council, MBIE, Royal Society, Universities NZ and other signatories

8. Ensure your citation metrics are accurate

9. Single profile in Web of Science
Unlike Scopus, there is no author ID in WoS = difficult to merge publications with similar names
Thomson Reuters has started an automated system to trawl through ORCID records monthly.
The data source for WoS is ORCID, not ResearcherID

10. Merge your identifiers in Scopus

11. Which systems are using ORCiD?
University Directory (UoA)
Research Outputs (UoA)

12. How do I get an ORCiD?

13. Where can I use my ORCiD?
Myorcid.auckland.ac.nz

14. 108/473 Engineering academic staff have an ORCiD iD
Sign up at myorcid.auckland.ac.nz
More information at library.auckland.ac.nz/orcid
Contact your Subject Librarians
Contact me –
Guides available
How to get help

15. Google Scholar Citations

16. ResearchGate

17. Academia.edu

18. Research Repository and Research Outputs
Research Outputs/Research Repository
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Long term preservation
YES NO
Business model
Not for profit
Commercial
Sends s
Wants address book
Possible copyright infringements
Author profiles
Yes, list skills and expertise
Yes, via job board. Can upload CV
Share files
All eligible Research Outputs
Papers, data, Github
Papers, data, patents

19. Researcher Perspectives/ Questions?