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Researcher Identification and Research Profiles

Researcher identifiers aim to lessen the problems caused by ambiguity in researcher names. For example, common surnames, the changing of names and characters which don’t appear in English are making the evaluation and following of scholarly work more difficult. Identifiers make it much easier to process and administer publication information.
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ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. The ORCID community includes individual researchers, publishers (e.g. Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier), universities and research institutions (e.g. MIT and CERN) and societies (e.g. APS and OSA).

ORCID Registry is available free of charge to individuals, who may obtain an ORCID identifier.  In ORCID Registry, the researcher may maintain his/her publication list and transfer publication information automatically from ACRIS.

Why ORCID?

  • ORCID allows you to distinguish yourself from other researchers and helps you to get credit from your own work. It keeps your information even if your name or organization changes.
  • ORCID is interoperable with many research systems (e.g. ACRIS, Scopus, Crossref) and information can be transferred between the systems.
  • Some research publishers (e.g. PLOS ONE, Science) and research funders require researchers to have ORCID.
  • Finnish Research Information Hub uses ORCID to link researchers to their research outputs.
  • ORCID will, over time, reduce the need to enter the same personal and publication data into different systems.

Use ORCID id

  • alongside the names of authors of scientific publications and other research output
  • when peer reviewing
  • to link various reference database IDs (ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID)
  • on your own website or blog
  • in your email signature, CV, and other services that handle information pertaining to your research

Connecting your ORCID with ACRIS

Instructions on how you can connect your ORCID with ACRISCheck your publication list in ORCID. If you have imported publications from more that one source, it's possible that you have duplicates. If this happens, you can remove duplicates manually.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is the most significant freely available scientific information search service. You can also create your own profile and link your publications to correct profile. Unlike ORCID, Google Scholar does not provide a unique researcher identifier which could be used when making searches.

Scopus Author ID

The Scopus Author ID is an identifier that is used in the Scopus citation database. Scopus Author ID allows you to track your publications indexed in Scopus.

Go to Open Science and Research hub

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Open science and research

The principle of openness is the key principle of science and research. At Aalto University, the most visible forms of open science are open access publications, open research data and metadata, and combining openness and commercialisation.

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