SUNScholar/Researcher Identification
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ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors.[1][2][3] This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the scientific literature can be hard to electronically recognize as most personal names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name abbreviations and employ different writing systems. It would provide for humans a persistent identity — an "author DOI" — similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).[4]
ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters. This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification. In scientific literature it is common to cite name, surname, and initials of the authors of an article. Sometimes however, there are authors with the same name, with the same initials, or the journal misspells, resulting in several spellings for the same authors, and different authors with the same spelling.
