Are you ready to become a number?
April 2009
The March issue of Science asked if life could be a lot easier if every scientist had a unique identification number.
With scientific output growing fast and spreading globally, it's becoming harder to tell authors apart. Science’s article reviews how Thomson Reuters and others are developing systems that aim to eliminate author misidentification, and to increase recognition of work and collaboration among researchers.
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ResearcherID: the global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community
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