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A well-managed research identity can help safeguard your professional profile; ensure you are properly credited for your work and enable you to share your findings with others. Your research identity allows others to find papers you or your organisation have published and lets you showcase all your research outputs in one place.

A well-managed research identity can keep your publications linked to you even if:

·        there is another person with a similar name.

·        you change your name.

·        you change jobs and have a new institutional affiliation.

 

A poorly managed research identity can lead to:

·        errors of author attribution across different databases.

·        duplication of effort in funder (and other) applications.

 

 

Publications Affiliation

 

You should use a standardised affiliated institutional title for your institution in all research outputs to ensure a consistent link to your institution.  This will allow all the research published by your institution to be found when searching publication databases such as SCOPUS or MEDLINE.

If Velindre is your institution, use: Velindre University NHS Trust.

 

 

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

 

As an author or researcher, you should register for an ORCID – a unique and persistent 16-digit identifier that you own and control, which distinguishes you from other researchers. It is quick and free to register, and you use the same ORCID throughout your career – even if you change name, institution, country or discipline.

You can use your ORCID throughout the research workflow to improve accuracy, for grant and manuscript submissions and for the peer-review process. ORCID is increasingly required by major funders and publishers, and you can use it to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions.

 

Scopus and Web of Science IDs

 

If you have published an article in a journal that is indexed by either the Scopus or Web of Science database, then you will have been automatically assigned an Author Identifier. As publications are attributed by an algorithm, there may be errors or more than one identifier for you.

It is therefore important to check your profile in these databases and request corrections to ensure accuracy.  You can also link these IDs to your ORCID. You can find further information about checking your author IDs at Scopus and 'Claim my record' at Web of Science.

 

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