Researcher Identifiers & Profiles: Home

A unique permanent identifier that links a researcher's name to their works. This is particularly useful when:

• Multiple researchers have similar names especially in a large discipline, it will be hard to distinguish one author from another.
• Researchers write their names differently depending on the context or when writing in other languages.

• Academia.edu 
• Research Gate 
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) 
• Mendeley 
• Linkedin 
• Loop 

Researcher profile is providing a single point to credit all research publications, projects, prizes, activities, media coverage and community impacts. 

It is important to have a researcher profile to:

• Avoid author disambiguation,
• Showcase your research to the world,
• Update your publications list,
• Generate citation metrics,
• Attract other researcher for potential collaborators,
• Maximise your opportunity for grant applications,
• Generate a personal CV on demand.

So it’s critical that author profile data is up to date and accurate to be used for funding, promotion and for other research performance based decisions.

• Publications.

• Awards and prizes.

• International engagement.

• Research grants.

• Peer-reviewing.