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Kathryn A. Martin Library

Scholarly Publishing

What you need to know about journal impacts, acceptance rates, peer-review status, UMD's institutional repository, and who is citing whom.

What are Authors Identifiers?

Schoarly Identification

A scholarly identifier is a tool to help organize and link your full body of academic work. Researchers can easily establish a digital identifier in both ORCID , Google Scholar, or Research Identifier and then begin attributing their work to these accounts.  This process creates a digital body of work to pool your citations, publications and research interests. 

About Researcher ID

Researcher ID is a Thomson Reuters Product and can be of especial importance to users who utilize the Web of Science. You can learn more about ResearcherID via ths link.  This tool can also be associated with your ORCID account.