ResearcherID6
Having a researcher distinction, a unique identifier, ensures that publications are accurately defined to an author, avoiding ambiguity issues. ResearcherID is a free tool from Thomson Reuters that generates this ID number. The account may be synched with ORCID and with Scopus ensuring the ID a researcher has on these other platforms is connected and pointing to same individual’s scholarly work. Researcher ID is also connected to Web of Knowledge. Publication lists can be imported between the accounts facilitating maintenance of an author’s work, a listing of works cited by others may be generated, and h-index presented to visualize researcher impact.