Set up your author ID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and ensures that your work is recognized by linking you to your professional activities.
Unlike other research IDs, your ORCID iD is universal. It's not tied to any institution or database, and it can follow you wherever your research takes you.
Registering for your ORCID iD only takes 30 seconds at orcid.org! Use your Cornell email address when you sign up!
Impact Metrics
Impact Factor (journals)
- Annual measure by journal (not article), originally invented by Eugene Garfield at ISI.
- Measured by citations to articles in the two preceding years divided by the number of articles published in those years.
h-Index (authors)
- Dynamic measure for relative quality of a researcher within a field, originally suggested by Jorge Hirsch at UCSD
- Measured by the number of papers published by an author cited that many times.
Altmetrics (authors)
- Proposed by ImpactStory to include scholarly discussion beyond journal articles and monographs
- Viewed - HTML views and PDF downloads
- Discussed - journal comments, science blogs, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook and other social media
- Saved - Mendeley, CiteULike and other social bookmarks
- Cited - citations in the scholarly literature, tracked by Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef and others
- Recommended - for example used by F1000Prime
- Uses - ORCID for cross-linking
Copyrights & Author Rights
Copyright balances rights of Authors & the Public
- Rights of authors to protect and monetize their work, including production, distribution, display and derivatives
- Rights of the public to access knowledge and advance society, including in research and teaching
- Cornell copyright guide
Author Rights
- When authors sign publishing agreements, in most cases they are signing over their copyright ownership to publishers
- Publishers often grant certain rights back to authors and not all publishers require full rights transfer, see policy summaries: v2.sherpa.ac.uk
- Many publishers offer Open Access (OA) options for different manuscript versions (submitted, accepted, published copy of record)
Open Licenses for Content & Software
- Free, easy-to-use, pre-formulated permissions to use for copyrighted works
- Suitable for publishing free material you want to distribute widely (e.g., outreach material)
- Apache License
- BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license
- BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license
- GNU General Public License (GPL)
- GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
- MIT license
- Mozilla Public License
- Common Development and Distribution License
- Eclipse Public License version
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Data Management Matters
Gibney, E., Van Noorden, R. Scientists losing data at a rapid rate. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.14416
