🆔 Research ID ResearcherIDis an identifying system for scientificauthors. The system was introduced in January 2008 byThomson Reuters. This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification and correct attribution of works. Researchers can use ResearcherID to claim their published works and link their unique and persistent ResearcherID number to these works for correct attribution. In this way, they can also keep their publication list up to date and online. The combined use of theDigital Object Identifierwith the ResearcherID allows a unique association of authors and research articles. It can be used to link researchers with registered trials or identify colleagues and collaborators in the same field of research. In April 2019, ResearcherID was integrated withPublons, aClarivate Analyticsowned platform, where researchers can track their publications, peer reviewing activity, and journal editing work. With ResearcherID now hosted on Publons researchers can keep a more comprehensive view of their research output and contributions in one place. ResearcherID and Publons are also integrated withWeb of Science, andORCID, enabling data to be exchanged between these databases.