Name ambiguity is a recurring issue that impacts research accuracy and quality, career advancement and tenure, global collaboration among researchers, and identification and attribution of funding for institutions and individual authors alike.
ResearcherID.com by Thomson Reuters (the creators of ISI’s Journal Citation Reports) allows researchers to:
- Generate a unique identifier to ensure that your work is correctly attributed to you
- Provide a way for your institution to properly measure your performance
- Manage your publication list and professional profile online, in one place
- List previous institutions in your profile to helps others find you as you move through your career
Written by Nathaniel King