> Profiling and Identity 
The researcher profile provides a unique identification number for each author. The identification number helps to enhance the research visibility and impact, find and recognize authors, avoid the confusion caused by similar names, and more.
With an author identifier, your data and publications will remain associated with you even if you move to another institution or change your name.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a digital identifier that provides a unique number for each author.
ORCID provides a consistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers (including researchers who have the same name as yours).
Through integration in key research workflows such as manuscripts and grant submissions, your ORCID ID automatically makes the connection between your profile and your professional activities, ensuring that your work will get recognized.
The Scopus author identifier assigns a unique number to authors in Scopus.
The Scopus author identifier helps in finding documents written by a specific author. To determine which author names should have the same identification, Scopus author identifier uses an algorithm that matches the authors’ names based on their affiliation, address, subject area, source title, dates of publication, citations, and co-authors.
A Scopus author ID is automatically generated on the first time one of your publications is indexed in Scopus, and it can also be integrated with ORCID.
Note: ORCID can be used across all platforms, but your Scopus author ID is specific to Scopus.
Scopus will sometimes generate multiple IDs for the same author, due to name spelling variations.
To solve this and to optimize the citation metrics, request to merge your author IDs.
For more information, please read the following page: Scopus author identifiers on Elsevier’s official website.
Type the last name, the initials and the affiliation (e.g. Technion) of the author in the ‘Authors’ search tab and click on ‘search’:
*Alternatively, search for authors by their ORCID identifier.
Click on the author’s name to access their profile:
Web of Science (WOS) researcher profiles are the next stage in the evolution of Clarivate’s researcher profile offering after replacing Publons. If you had a Publons profile, you will now find it in the Web of Science database. WOS researcher profile is the only profile where you can track your publications, citation metrics, handling editor work, peer reviews for journals, conferences, and funders, all in one place.
WOS researcher profiles can only be updated by the profile owner.
If you’ve noticed that you have duplicate profiles or two Web of Science researcher IDs (duplicate profiles after replacing Publons), you can request for your profiles to be merged:
Please note that submitting a request will not instantly delete your account or merge your profiles.
After reporting duplicate profiles, the WOS team will reach out to you via email to assist with the merging process.
Google Scholar offers an easy way for authors to display their academic publications.
Researchers can choose to automatically add articles, with citation metrics being regularly updated.
Google Scholar citation counts are commonly used, but they are not always accurate (refer to the ‘considerations’ section for more information on Google Scholar).
