Increase Your Scholarly Visibility

An ORCID iD is a unique identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers, for example, if you:

• Have a common name that is shared by other researchers
• Change names over different life circumstances
• Have a name with structures or symbols that online search has difficulty with
• Change roles or institutions

Increase your visibility with your ORCID iD

• On your ORCID profile, provide a comprehensive picture of your professional activities: education, affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.
• Add links on your ORCID profile to all of your other websites, researcher profiles, and social media accounts. Whenever possible, link to your ORCID on these same sites.
• Use your iD when submitting journal manuscripts or applying for grants when prompted.
• Add your ORCID iD to your CV, your email signature, and to any other websites or platforms you use.

1. Add your basic profile information, including your institutional affiliation, your university email address, and a photo.
2. Add your publications: Google Scholar will attempt to identify articles that belong to you, but if you have a common name, it will likely provide you with a list of "author groups" made up of authors with similar names and articles tentatively associated with each author. Once you have identified the correct article group, review the article list and remove any publications that do not belong to you or that you do not want to add to your profile. You may also need to manually add any publications Google Scholar missed.
3. Make your profile public.
4. Manage your profile over time: If you chose to allow Google Scholar to automatically add publications, periodically review what articles have been added, or sign up for alerts to be notified as articles are added. Otherwise, Google Scholar will email you to approve any new articles.

ResearcherID is a unique identifier that enables authors to track publications and citation metrics in Web of Science.

1. Create or claim your ResearcherID.

If you already have publications indexed by Web of Science, you can claim an automatically generated author record and ResearcherID. Otherwise, you can create a ResearcherID by registering for a researcher profile.

2. Review your researcher profile.

After you create/claim your ResearcherID, make sure the publications listed on your researcher profile belong to you and not to authors with the same or similar names. You may also need to merge duplicate author records to ensure there is a single ResearcherID associated with your publications.

3. Connect your profile with your ORCID iD.

Once you have connected your ORCID iD, you will be asked to grant permission for permission to update your ORCID profile. Once you grant permission, you can sync your profiles, keeping your ORCID profile up to date with changes in your Web of Science researcher profile and vice versa.

The Lens is a free and open platform to find, analyze, and manage data about patents and scholarly works. Lens Profiles are auto-generated based on public ORCID profiles, with information about patents and scholarly works compiled from publicly available data sources using the ORCID iD as the linking identifier. If you have patents, creating a Lens Profile can help you increase the visibility of your work.

By linking your ORCID account with your Lens account, you can sync your patents and scholarly works across both profiles. You can also find and claim your Lens Profile, as well as add additional patents and scholarly works not yet included on your profile. If you don't have an ORCID iD, visit our ORCID guide to create one. If you have an ORCID iD and a Lens account, follow these four steps: