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Accurate identification:

• A system-generated unique identifier ensures your work is correctly attributed to you
• Provides a way for your institution to properly measure your performance 
• Find your colleagues' work easily

Organize and Manage:

• Manage your publication list and professional profile online, in one place
• An online publication list allows others easy access to your body of work
• Listing previous institutions in your profile helps others find you as you move throughout your career

Increase Visibility & Recognition:

• Include your ResearcherID number in your email signature 
• ResearcherID badge:
  • Can be placed in almost any online environment (webpage, blog, etc.) to showcase recent publications
  • Links people directly to your profile and full publication list in ResearcherID

Measure Performance:

• Personal metrics like times cited counts and H-index quantify your performance
• Citing Articles and Collaboration Networks tools in the Labs show the reach of your work

Collaboration:

• Searching keywords can help you find researchers in your specific field or line of interest to work with
• View other researchers’ Citing Articles and Collaboration Networks to find others in your field you may want to work with
• A multi-disciplinary community online fosters collaboration around the world

Security:

• A secure online environment and profile controls provide a safe environment

Accurate identification:

• Helps you correctly find other works by the same author
• Ensures more accurate research and bibliography building
• Listing various institutions in your profile will help others find you as you move around early in your career

Organize and Manage:

• As you get started publishing this will immediately help you manage your work… online, in one place
• Allows others easy access to your work; works like an e-CV

Increase Visibility & Collaboration Opportunities:

• Start networking early with other researchers all over the world
• Include your ResearcherID number in your email signature 
• ResearcherID badge:
  • Can be placed in almost any online environment (webpage, blog, etc.) to showcase recent publications
  • Links people directly to your profile and full publication list in ResearcherID

Professional Growth:

• Make strategic decisions early in your career by understanding what fields are seeing the most growth
• Once you’re published the personal metrics you’ll get with ResearcherID will show your impact even early in your career

Security:

• A secure online environment and profile controls provide a safe environment

Accurate identification:

• Ensures your researchers are correctly affiliated with your institution
• Find and track category leaders
• Properly identify peers to benchmark against

Organize and Manage:

• Helps build an institutional repository:
  • Uploading profile and publication data will create ResearcherID accounts
  • Profile and publication information, including times cited counts for certain items, can be downloaded

Increase Visibility & Recognition:

• Showcase your researchers’ recent publications by placing their ResearcherID badge on your institution’s website
• Mass create and upload profiles for your researchers increases the presence of your institution on ResearcherID

Measure Performance:

• Metrics like times cited counts and H-index quantify performance by your faculty and staff
• Personalized metrics provide further data to help with strategic decisions

Collaboration:

• More collaboration opportunities increase the global impact of your institution

Security:

• Secure online system makes direct access to the registry safe for your administrative system