Systems of author identification
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allows for the identification of the scientist, which is especially important when the name is changed, transliterated (e.g., from Cyrillic), and when there are different forms of writing the name in publications;
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allows verification of data about the scientist, including information about his scientific achievements, units of employment, area of scientific interest and professional cooperation;
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allows you to properly associate publications with their authors also in the case of authors with the same name and scientific activity in the same disciplines/ research areas.
Popular systems for identifying scientists
ORCID (nowe okno) – author identification system (free of charge for individuals) created by the American non-profit ORCID institution, supported by scientists, universities and publishers from around the world, who are close to the idea of providing a reliable source of information about scientists, their achievements and affiliated institutions;
Publons (nowe okno) – a system designed as a platform that presents information about publications, citations and reviews by researchers in one place; linked to the Web of Science database, the ORCID system and thousands of scientific journals, so you can automatically import or update publications from a variety of resources, as well as bibliography managers (e.g., EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero).
International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) (nowe okno)– ISO standard, used by numerous libraries, publishers, databases and copyright management applications around the world. It is used to uniquely identify individuals and organizations involved in creative activities. ISNI is an important element in, for example, Linked Data and Semantic Web applications. The ISNI database is completed from multiple data sources around the world and is based on linking using matching algorithms. ISNI identifiers are assigned when there is a high level of confidence that the new names match existing names in the database, or when sufficiently rich metadata is available to determine that the new name does not already exist in the ISNI database.
Scientist's profile
Author's profile in the Knowledge Platform of the Cracow University of Technology (new window) (CRIS PK) is created for each author of publications registered in the database. It shows bibliographic data of all the author's publications registered in CRIS PK, including co-authored publications, translations, as well as information about the supervisor of doctoral theses. In addition, the author can include here a photograph and other information at his/her discretion.