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Web of Science Researcher Profile

Web of Science Researcher Profile

The Web of Science Researcher profile allows researchers to add their publications that are indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and import other publications by synchronizing with ORCID or performing DOI search. It provides citation metrics, such as total citation counts and h-index, so that researchers could track the visibility of their research output.

Web of Science researcher profiles are the new Clarivate’s author profiling tool after replacing Publons. This migration of Publons profiles into the Web of Science occurred to combine Clarivate’s two researcher representations (profiles and Web of Science author records). More information regarding the migration is available here.

A Web of Science personal account is required for accessing the researcher profile. You may register a new account if you do not have one.

Registering for Web of Science Account

Go to Web of Science via Find@HKUL.

For new users, click on “Register” for registering a new account.

For users with a registered Web of Science person account before, login by clicking on “Sign In”.

Adding Publications to your Web of Science Researcher Profile

You may start to build up your researcher profile once you have registered for a Web of Science personal account.

After logging in, click on the “profile icon” on the left menu to arrive your researcher profile front page.

Click on "+Add" beside "Publication" directly on the menu, or press "Manage" under the "Documents" section box, then press "+Add publications".

You may add your publication to your profile in a number of ways:

1. Select from the Web of Science Core Collection database

The system will search for any publications indexed in Web of Science that match your email address or name(s). Click on "View my publications", and select the publication(s) by ticking the box, then click on “submit” to claim the publication record.

2. Import by identifiers (e.g. DOI, PubMed ID, or arXiv ID)

You may enter the unique identifier(s) of your publication (e.g. DOI, PubMed ID, or arXiv ID) or search by the title in order to add it one-by-one into your profile.

3. Upload a file (RIS, CSV, or BibTex)

If you already have a file containing your publication details, you may simply select the file from your device and upload it onto Publons.

4. Synchronize with your ORCID record

Please refer to this page for the guidelines on how to link your researcher profile to your ORCID profile. After setting up an authorization to Web of Science to access your ORCID records, you may set up automatic synchronization between your Web of Science researcher profile and ORCID profile in "Profile Settings".

Integrating with ORCID

You could integrate your Web of Science Researcher Profile with your ORCID profile. Please refer to this page “Link ORCID to other systems” in our ORCID@HKUL LibGuide.

The Web of Science Researcher Profile Help Page

More information regarding how to use the Web of Science researcher profile are available here.