The WoS Researcher Profile filter returns matching author records from the Web of Science Author Search data. These are algorithmically created clusters that bring together multiple variants into a single author record. Records can be claimed and corrected in Web of Science. The WoS Researcher Profile search offers a series of benefits to easily identify researchers.
With WoS Researcher Profile search, you get only the number of records that exist for the researcher in Web of Science. You can perform search using Name, ORCID or Researcher ID.
You can search for Name or ID in the Find in table.
The WoS Researcher Profile feature helps you identify the full output of a researcher and minimizes the risks of missed name variants. This reduces the effort in analyzing an author within their full scope of authorships when compared to using the Person ID Type Group as Name or Unique ID (allows search with ORCID or Researcher ID).
Obtain single author records
With Author Name search, names are not disambiguated and as consequence a unique person might have multiple records. Also, in this view the ORCID/Researcher ID related to the researcher are not displayed in the table.
Similarly, using Unique ID search has limitations as this perform search based on ORCID or WOS Researcher ID and does not bring together multiple variants of author records from WOS into a single record and thus multiple rows can be displayed for same author.
Both Name and Unique ID search have limitation and Unique ID option is now marked as deprecated. WOS Researcher Profile allows search by either name or ID (ORCID or WOS Researcher ID) and thus no need to switch to Name / Unique ID search.
WoS Author Records can be in Unclaimed or Claimed status. Use the filter to select which profiles you want to analyze based on status.
- Unclaimed: they have been automatically generated in Web of Science and have not yet been acquired by the author.
- Claimed: the author has acknowledged the profile in Web of Science and curated it as needed
Affiliation
The type-ahead search returns the matching author record name and the most recent organizational affiliation according to publications, to help select the required author record. Use the affiliation indicator to discover all the organizations the researcher has been historically affiliated.
Web of Science Researcher ID
All WoS Author records are linked to a Web of Science Researcher ID to help with the identification. They are stable, it means that Researcher IDs for unclaimed records are not changing in every monthly dataset update. However, the content linked to each Researcher ID might change when users curate their record content in Web of Science.
WoS Author Record status
It is possible to filter by claimed and unclaimed record to get more clarity. Claimed records are showing a green icon in the table to help with the identification.
Additional Indicators Available
The WoS Researcher Profile view includes indicators that are not available in Name and Unique ID view. This includes the Times Cited without Self-Citations and the H-Index without Self-Citations
Save Reports
Save the analysis done using WoS Researcher Profile as reports
Researcher Report
Researcher Report includes the option to search by WoS Researcher Profile, in addition to Unique identifiers (WoS Researcher ID and ORCID).
WoS Researcher Profile names in the Researcher explorer are hyperlinked to easily navigate to the Researcher Report.