This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification and correct attribution of works.

[1] In April 2019, ResearcherID was integrated with Publons,[2] a Clarivate Analytics owned platform, where researchers can track their publications, peer reviewing activity, and journal editing work.

[3] ResearcherID has been criticized for being commercial and proprietary,[4] but also praised as "an initiative addressing the common problem of author misidentification".

[5] As the ongoing globalization of the science and technologies continues, enlarging groups of scientific researchers have stepped into various different fields to study.

The dilemmas they are continuously facing include not being able to directly link the author with respective literature, not being up to date with specific topics within the field, etc."

[7] From April 2022, Publons started to move the profiles into the Web of Science so as to avoid data inconsistencies between the two platforms.

[8] In 2008, Thomson Reuters started up the ResearcherID system as an addition of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (WoS) database.

Meanwhile, creating personal profiles helped others distinguish researchers with the same first and last names, therefore increasing clarification of worldwide scientific progress.

[10] Due to a vast development of unique identifiers in the research field, there has been numbers of systems serving identification process, for example, ORCID, Scopus, ResearcherID and ResearchGate.

In the year 2012, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) was integrated with ResearcherID to share and verify information in both systems, improving the efficiency of independent retrieval.

[7] By searching either the name of the author or ResearcherID on the Web of Science ResearcherID website, users can find the author's present occupation, his or her publications, key words of research fields, main topics of published literature and direct links to information page of the most cited publications, though full text cannot be uploaded.

Choosing Web of Science Core Collection enables researchers to search literature among the abstract databases.

In conclusion, ResearcherID plays a more supplementary role among author identifiers, but is more necessary in the Web of Science Groups of products.

[18] In other words, Google Scholar covers a larger range of research studies, yet have included bibliographic problems, for example, author sequence, different paper title, etc.

On the other hand, ORCID code was more widely accepted by international journals and publishers than ResearcherID and was somehow mandatory for publications.

[20] Though researchers tend to choose ResearchID for identification less, this system can be used to prove the author sets, especially after having combined with other identifiers.

On one hand, ResearcherID can transfer files into RIS form which is specifically established for research information system.

As an interactive lab environment, researcherID makes it easier to reference literature for the research field and global use.

For example, the information of authors' geographic addresses is found to be missing in numbers of profiles among the disciplines of social science, arts and humanities.

[22] In addition, there have been a number of empty profiles on the Web of Science with unclear reasons, and yet still are counted in statistics.