Web of Science researcher profiles are the next stage in the evolution of Clarivate’s researcher profile offering after replacing Publons. This migration of Publons profiles into the Web of Science occurred to combine Clarivate’s two researcher representations (profiles and Web of Science author records) into Clarivate’s pre-eminent researcher-facing platform and simplify the experience of those researchers and administrators tracking their research outputs.

If you had a Publons profile, you will now find it in Web of Science.

Due to the sheer size of the migration from Publons to Web of Science not all features could be completed in time for launch. In addition, some Publons features were intentionally not migrated due to lack of use

Features which are coming soon to Web of Science researcher profiles:

• Pending records: the list of receipts you’ve sent to reviews@webofscience.com or edits@webofscience.com which are still being processed.

• Editorial board membership management.

• The ability to indicate your interest in reviewing for a journal.

• Your ResearcherID badge. You will not be able to generate a new badge, but existing badges will continue to work.

• Publication sorting options on your profile.

Features which have been discontinued in the migration:

• Journal and country browse tables. You can still evaluate journals which are indexed in the Web of Science using the Master Journal List.

• Researcher browse table. You can search for researcher profiles using the Researcher Search option in the Web of Science.

• Publication browse table. If you have entitled access to Web of Science collections, you may search them using Document Search.

• Journal endorsements. You will be able to indicate your interest in reviewing for certain journals via your review settings when that feature is completed.

• Publication scores. These were used extensively by a very small group. Your scores are still available, if you would like an export of them, please contact our customer support team.

• Research fields. These were primarily used to filter the researcher browse table which is now gone so they were not brought across.

• Altmetric scores are no longer available.

You do not need to register nor have Web of Science entitlements to be able to view a ‘free’ version of a researcher’s profile.

Free access includes:

• Researcher information (profile picture, name, institution, awards)

• Web of Science Researcher ID

• 10 most recent publications (including those indexed or not indexed in Core Collection.

• Peer reviews, grant reviews, editorial board memberships.

• Publication metrics (h-index, citing articles count, sum of times cited, peer review count)

• Publication and peer review charts

This excludes:

• Access to Web of Science Researcher Search or Document Search.

• Access to Citing Articles lists

• Access to Citation report

• Metrics such as: Author Impact Beamplot, Geographic Citation Map, Co-author list, and Author Position analysis

Registered Access (without a Web of Science Subscription)

Researchers can sign up to a Web of Science account without a content subscription. In addition to the free features, this gives users:

• The ability to create their own Web of Science Researcher Profile.

• View of your own Beamplot and Geographic Citation Map.

• The ability to search for Researcher Profiles using Researcher Search.

• Full publication lists.

This excludes

• Access to Document Search

• Access to unclaimed Author Records.

• Access to Citation Report and Citing Articles lists

Web of Science Core Collection Subscriber

Users with entitlements to the Core Collection will see a 'full' version of the researcher profiles. The features available in addition to those above are:

• Researcher Search includes Profiles plus Author Records, covering all of the Core Collection back to 1900.

• Co-author network

• Author position analysis

• Citation report

• Profile export (own profile)

• Web of Science Author Impact Beamplots

Can I index my journal in Web of Science researcher profile?

Web of Science researcher profile is not an indexing service. If you are interested in submitting a journal to be indexed in Web of Science Core Collection, please navigate to the Web of Science Publisher Portal.

The Portal allows publishers to securely log in and submit journals for inclusion in the Web of Science Core Collection™ and provides a way to view the status of all submitted journals.

Can you please add a journal to the list so that I can add my review or editor record?

If you notice that a journal is not listed while you are trying to manually add a review or editor record this suggests that this journal has no presence on Web of Science researcher profile yet.

To have your review or editor record verified and added to your profile please simply forward your review receipts (thank you for your review emails) to reviews@webofscience.com or add editor records by forwarding your editorial receipts to edits@webofscience.com.

When you do this, we add new journal titles to our list automatically. If you do not have receipts that you can forward to us and would still like to add your record manually, please reach out to the support team to have the journal manually added.

Web of Science Reviewer Locator and Reviewer Recognition Service

Web of Science offers partner services that help publishers and journals to acknowledge the efforts of their reviewers and find, screen, and connect with the subject matter experts needed to peer review manuscript submissions.

We have two paid-for products:

• Reviewer Recognition Service: Web of Science integrates into the reviewer workflow so academics can track and verify every review and editorial contribution on-the-fly, and in full compliance with journal review policies. We integrate seamlessly with all submission systems to automate the process of recognizing your reviewers.

• Web of Science Reviewer Locator a great new search tool to help you quickly find the best reviewers, combining the power of Web of Science researcher profile's exclusive peer review database with the unparalleled Web of Science author and citation index.

Please learn more about these services and register your interest in a partnership here: