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Create & Claim Author/Researcher/Scholar Profiles

A guide for faculty outlining the researcher profiles in various databases and providing information on how to establish and maintain them.

Web of Science • Social Sciences Citation Index • Humanities Citation Index

Web of Science is a collection of databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions across the globe.

Benefits of Claiming and Maintaining Your Web of Science Author Profile

  • Ensure that all your works in WoS are correctly attributed to you.
  • Obtain citation counts, h-index, data on journals' impact factors, and citation metrics reports.
  • Add variants of your name.
  • Link your author record with ORCID and authorize exchange of data between these systems to save time.
  • Keep track of your peer reviewer and editor activities in journals indexed by WoS.

Getting Started 

If you haven't already done so, you need to register for an account in Web of Science (WoS)  before you can access your Author Profile. Registering for an account in WoS also enables you to save searches and set up alerts to keep up with publications in your field.

Building Your Author Profile in Web of Science

  1. View/claim your author record in Web of Science. This record is algorithmically generated and can be incorrect. Claiming and editing it will make it more accurate.
  2. Link to your ORCiD account (if you have one)*
  3. Add your publications from Web of Science 
  4. Add instances of being a peer-reviewer for journals
  5. Tip: *Permitting your ORCiD account to automatically sync with your Web of Science Researcher Profile will help keep both profiles current.

Merging Duplicate Researcher Profiles

  1. Sign into your Web of Science account.
  2. Go to 'Settings' (located top right of screen under your name drop-down).
  3. Select 'Account Settings' > 'Delete/merge account' tab.
  4. Next, select the radio button 'I need to merge duplicate accounts' > Submit request.
  5. After submitting your request, you will be contacted via email to complete the process.

Managing Your Peer Review Settings

  1. Sign into your Web of Science account.
  2. Go to 'Profile Settings' (located top right of screen under your name drop-down).
  3. Select the 'Peer Review Preferences' tab.
  4. From the menu, you can manage your reviewer, author, grant and peer review display preferences.

To add peer review types to your Researcher Profile visit the Web of Science Managing Peer Reviews page for step by step instructions.

Syncing WoS with Your ORCID Record