Digital identity

 

Digital identity is all the data or traces associated with a person's online activity.

How to create an ORCID account


Claiming your identity

 

  • To eliminate homonyms: by using a unique identifier when applying for grants, when submitting an article or on your web page, you can ensure that your work is properly attributed to you.
  • To present complete and up-to-date information: an institutional CV, a dynamic CV, a CV on HAL, etc.
  • To encourage referencing by search engines and databases, including free citation databases.
Promoting your work


To ensure rapid visibility of your work, increase the citation rate and make your expertise known beyond the academic world: upload your publications to HAL and create an IDHAL, together with a dynamic HAL CV.

 

Sharing your activities and knowledge

 

Researchers' social networks (Academia or ResearchGate) can help to raise the profile of your expertise in certain research areas. However, you should not post any documents, especially publications or datasets, on these platforms, which are managed by for-profit companies.

There's nothing like the ORCID and CVHAL profiles for publicising and promoting your work, and you can add the URL to your e-mail signature or to your website.

Track your Impact (link to the Bibliometrics page)

The purpose of researcher identifiers is threefold:

  • To better identify a researcher (in particular to remove the ambiguity of homonyms) and to know his or her affiliation with certainty.
  • To have access to an updated list of publications.
  • To find out their qualitative (reputation) indicators: h-index, number of citations, etc.

There are several platforms for creating a researcher ID. Although some identifiers can be linked, this is not always the case. Ideally, you should create an identifier for each of the platforms presented. The profile created on certain platforms allows you to easily track your publications and citations, without having to carry out multiple searches.

ORCID identifier: international identifier used to manage your article publications. How to create an ORCID account

iDHAL identifier: unique identifier for HAL, in order to exploit your deposits in the HAL open archive. A link can be made with the ORCID.

The Scopus database can also be used to create a researcher identifier.

Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.fr/

ResearcherID | www.researcherid.com

These identifiers can be combined with your IdRef (Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche).

The university library can help you create an identifier.

The main pitfall of any bibliometric analysis is the difficulty of identifying an institution's publications, all its publications and only its own. This information is collected from the publisher and sometimes re-formatted.

Consult the URCA signature charter (2025)

The URCA HAL portal lists the different affiliations of the research units.