When a user manually adds a Web of Science Core Collection publication or a Preprint record to a researcher profile, the Web of Science needs to match the profile owner to the author position on the claimed publication. If the system can not find the named author in a position, the system then requires the user to manually verify their position on the paper to accept the claim.
What does an "authorship" signify in Web of Science researcher profiles?
An authorship is represented by the author’s position among the list of authors of that publication. So, for the Web of Science, when a researcher claims a publication, there will be the profile owner name and the publication metadata (comes with the WoS Accession number identifier for the record) to validate the authorship claimed. The profile owner name needs to match the name of the author in the author list on the publication.
What is a position-less authorship claim?
A position-less authorship claim is a claim that lacks an author position when a publication is claimed. To process and honor this type of claim, the Web of Science researcher profiles needs the author position, specifically if it is a Web of Science Core Collection publication and a Preprint record.
Which manual claims result in position-less authorship claims?
Web of Science researcher profiles receive position-less claims if the user adds publications to their profile via a means that does not provide the position of the author on the paper.
This is primarily through
ORCID sync
Identifier search
Export' of an article or articles from within WoS (full record page or results list page)
File imports
How does Web of Science researcher profiles resolve position-less claims?
Web of Science looks for the correct author position on the publication through a position resolution algorithm that attempts to resolve the correct author position by comparing the profile owner's name with the names of authors listed on the paper.
What does ‘Verified’ and ‘Not Verified’ authorship in my publications list mean?
When the position resolution algorithm finds a match for the profile owner name against the author names in the list on the publication, then Web of Science accepts the claim and it is identified as ‘Verified’ on the public profile page and across the Web of Science platform.
If the position resolution algorithm cannot find a match, then it remains as a Not verified authorship on the My Publications list page and it will not be shown on the public profile page.
Why do I see my publication count and the metrics lesser on the public profile page than in my private dashboard page?
Web of Science maintains quality standards of researcher profiles and hence only shows publications with verified authorships on the public profile page. Thus, the publication count and the metrics will be calculated on the verified publications. However, there would be ‘Not verified’ authorships on the private dashboard – My Publications list page that do not show up on the public profile.
Besides above reason, if you do not have subscription for all the indexes and databases and historical content in the Web of Science Platform then you would see the count drop, if you had any publications from other databases added to your profile.
How do I know if I need to verify the authorship manually?
If there is at least one ‘Not verified’ authorship in the user’s private dashboard - My publication list page, then user see a prompt highlighting to verify the authorship and provided with ‘Review author names’ button. But in case, if you have clicked ‘Closed’ or ‘Dismiss’ during a session then you would also see a ‘Verify’ link shown on each Not Verified authorship.
Do I need to verify all the non verified authorship at once?
No, you need not to do all the verification at once. A Verification status filter allows you to refine to see only Non verified authorship so you can manage verification for each publication instead of doing all of them at once.
How do I claim my author position manually on a Not Verified authorship?
Under My publications list page:
Clicking on ‘Verify the publication(s)’ on the prompt message or a ‘Verify’ link on a Not verified publication takes user to ‘Verify your authorship’ page, that displays the publications along with a drop down with the available author positions in it. So, user can select and claim the correct author’s name from the list.
What is the distinction between 'Available authorship' and 'Claimed authorship' in the author list drop down?
Using the author list of a publication, each author can claim their position and Web of Science honor the same based on the confidence score of the match between claimed author and the author’s name on the publication. So, if the authorship on a publication has not yet claimed it will be kept for 'Available authorship' where as, if any user has claimed it on their profile for it should be theirs, then it will be kept under 'Claimed authorship'.
What should I do when I have my name under 'Available authorship'?
By selecting the author name under 'Available authorship', user can claim that authorship by submitting it for the verification and proceeding with the next steps.
What should I do when I have my name under 'Claimed authorship'?
Only one author or researcher can claim the specific authorship and get it on their profile. Hence, if the author’s name user is looking for had already been claimed then user can learn more about who, as in which researcher profile has claimed it and decide accordingly to proceed further.
What should I do if my authorship has got claimed on one of my own profiles, but to get it on to the existing profile?
An authorship is unique to a researcher profile, so if you have have already claimed it on one of your profiles, you cannot claim and get the same authorship on multiple profiles. It is incorrect for the system to accept. Hence, if you own the profile that had claimed the authorship, then please use the automated process to merge or delete any of the duplicate profiles you have and so get all your authorship claimed on to a single profile that you would like to have with Web of Science.
What should I do if my authorship has got claimed on another profile incorrectly?
While the authorship verification is done to match the author name on the paper with the profile claimed, if any user has already provided their author position through any of the various user journeys then it will be honored to the user claiming it.
However, you can still go ahead to select your name from the drop down and proceed with the next step to submit an ‘Authorship data correction’ on that publication so, the authorship will be manually verified for if someone has claimed the author position incorrectly and your request will be considered to reject the authorship of the incorrect claim and then to claim the same author position back on to your profile. You can see the authorship verified and will be shown on your public profile, once the correction is done.
What should I do if my name is not in the list of author names in the drop down?
If your name is not in the list, most likely the publication had got incorrectly claimed on to your profile, so you do not need to verify it rather 'Delete' the Publication from your 'My Publications' list page.
Will the group authorship be presented on the public profile page and calculated for the metrics?
Unfortunately we will not have group authored publications displayed under publication counts. Currently, researchers can only claim publication for an authorship (UT + author position) available and get it as verified. Since we do not have leverage to associate an author position for each of the group authors yet, those authors will not able to claim these papers as part of their author record, and so it will not be included in the publication counts.