There are several databases which allow you to track and measure the scholarly impact of the publications of an individual researcher. Most used are Web of Science,Opens external ScopusOpens external and Google Scholar.Opens external
Measuring impact starts with identifying the publications of the researcher in the database(s) you have chosen as a source. Name ambiguity is a recurring issue: one researcher can have multiple names and one name can refer to multiple researchers. To solve this problem of misidentification several researcher IDs have been developed. ORCIDOpens external is a researcher ID that's requested by more and more funders and publishers. The online module ‘YOU in databases: academic profilingOpens external’ gives examples about why it’s important to manage your academic profile.
You can read more about these most used databases and the measuring of impact in the course Research Impacts: sources and metricsOpens external.
