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Benefits to Researchers of Using ORCID
Philip Purnell – Knowledge E
ORCID: 0000-0003-3146-2737
p.purnell@knowledgee.com
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November 14, 2016
Institution name disambiguation
The problem of name
disambiguation is well
known at institution level
Author name disambiguation
… who are you ... ?
.. it is even more important
at individual author level
Author name disambiguation
… are these my papers … ?
Open Researcher & Contributor ID
ORCID
Solves the
problem of
author name
disambiguation
Open Researcher & Contributor ID
ORCID
Are we all going
to become
numbers now … ?
Open Researcher & Contributor ID
ORCID
… every researcher
should have an ORCID
Registration takes
less than 1 minute!
Early indicators of citation impact
Journal Impact Factor
201520142013
Source paper – published in 2015
Cited reference – published in 2014 or 2013
Citations
All
Previous
Years
2012 2016
2015 Journal Impact
Factor

Citation impact
Journal Impact Factor
There are many uncited papers
published in even the highest
impact factor journals …
Citation impact
Journal Impact Factor
… and conversely many highly
cited papers in low impact factor
journals
Citation impact
Appropriate level of aggregation
University rankings
Times Higher Education
(Khalifa citations 2010 – 2015 / Global citations 2010 – 2015)
(Khalifa papers 2010 – 2014 / Global papers 2010 – 2014)
University rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
Citation impact
Individual researchers
Paper 1 6
Paper 2 4
Paper 3 4
Paper 4 3
Paper 5 1
Paper 6 1
Paper 7 1
Paper 8 0
Paper 9 0
Paper 10 0
Total Citations 20
Citations per Paper 2
Paper 1 200
Paper 2 6
Paper 3 4
Paper 4 4
Paper 5 3
Paper 6 1
Paper 7 1
Paper 8 1
Paper 9 0
Paper 10 0
Paper 11 0
Total Citations 220
Citations per Paper 20
Citation impact
Individual researchers
Jorge E. Hirsch
Citation impact
Individual researchers

Citation impact
Individual researchers
Paper 1 6
Paper 2 4
Paper 3 4
Paper 4 3
Paper 5 1
Paper 6 1
Paper 7 1
Paper 8 0
Paper 9 0
Paper 10 0
Total Citations 20
Citations per Paper 2
H-Index 3
Paper 1 200
Paper 2 6
Paper 3 4
Paper 4 4
Paper 5 3
Paper 6 1
Paper 7 1
Paper 8 1
Paper 9 0
Paper 10 0
Paper 11 0
Total Citations 220
Citations per Paper 20
H-Index 4
Citation impact
Individual researchers
Jorge E. Hirsch
Citation impact
Individual researchers
Citation impact
Individual researchers
Citation impact
Individual researchers
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