Unique Author Identifiers

Because people's names are not always unique, it can be difficult to distinguish between researchers in the same or different scientific fields.  To help with this problem, unique author identifiers can be assigned to help researchers distinguish themselves from other researchers with similar names. 

• A profile providing information about the researcher such as field of research and institutional affiliation
• A complete list of works collected together by either manually curating a list or through automated methods
• Linking between systems allowing ease of connecting to the researcher's profile