ORCID and Researcher Profiles

Publons is an online research profile website for researchers to track and showcase their peer review activities, editorial contributions and publications. Web of Science citation metrics. Publons has joined the Web of Science, and has been renamed as Web of Science Researcher Profile.

For peer reviewers, Publons provides a way to get credit for contributions (without breaking reviewer anonymity) in a format they can include in promotion and funding applications.

Register

It is free to register with Publons.

ResearcherID is a free author identifier used by Web of Science. It assigns a unique identifier to each registered researcher. This system enables researchers to manage their publication lists, track citations and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification.

ResearcherID is now included in Publons profiles.

Register

If you have publications indexed by Web of Science and you have a Publons account, Publons will assign a ResearcherID to your profile.

If you have a ResearcherID already, but haven't registered with Publons, you can login to the Publons website using the same email and password you used for ResearcherID. Your ResearcherID will appear on your Publons profile.

Profile summary page

Complete all fields, such as your research field, institution, affiliation, and update it when it is needed.

Add publications

• Link your Publons account with your ORCID account. This will automatically export your review activities to your ORCID profile
• If you have an ResearcherID, your publications indexed by Web of Science will also be imported to your Publons profile
• You can add your publications to you Publons profile by DOI searching, import from a file (RIS, CSV, etc.).
• You can also manually enter your publications. 

Find more details from the Publons website.

Citation counts

Citation matrices, such as citation counts and h-index, will be made available in your profile for the publications indexed by Web of Science.