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Selected Author Identifiers

Product	Type	Registration	Scope/Limitations
Open Identifiers
ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier)	From ISNI International Agency; ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certified	ISNI gets data from many sources. Search existing IDs on the search page. Apply for an ISNI.	Very broad in scope. Includes IDs for authors, researchers, artists, performers, publishers and more. Used primarily for identifying organizations, authors of books, and researchers for a limited number of EU countries
Proprietary Identifiers
Publons	Proprietary - From Thomson Reuters	Fill out the web form, then you'll get an email registration to obtain an ID.	Integrated with Web of Science and will link your publications in that database to your ID. Can manually add publications not included in Web of Science or import them from another source. Thompson Reuters supports ORCID and recommends that authors obtain an ORCID in addition to Publons.
Scopus Author Identifier	From Elsevier	Identifier automatically assigned to all authors indexed in Scopus	Articles indexed in Scopus only.
Google Scholar Citations	From Google	From Google Scholar click My Citations and login to your Google account. After entering information into your profile Google will retrieve articles likely to be authored by you. Articles can then be added to your profile (in groups and/or individually.)	Items indexed by Google Scholar only.
Repository Identifier
arXiv Author IDs	From arXiv	Used to accurately identify contributors to arXiv, an electronic archive of research articles in the sciences maintained by the Cornell University Library. arXiv authors opt-in to create an author ID on the create an author identifier page.	Currently links to articles indexed in arXiv only. To see what services arXiv offers based on their identifiers see their author identifiers help page.

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