Title: Module 6: Assignment answers
Course: Teaching Open Science and Research Data Management for Undergraduates > Section: Module 6: Research Impact and Visibility

1. Why should a researcher have a researcher identifier?

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ORCID and other Researcher Identifiers

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More publications are being published today than ever before, including co-publications.

Unique identifier: The researcher identifier provides a unique and permanent identifier for the researcher. It helps to distinguish the researcher from others with the same name, thus reducing the risk of confusion between different publications and studies. It remains the same even if the workplace changes.

2. Explore another researcher identifier besides ORCID iD and introduce it briefly.

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(Examples: Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID)

3. Choose three international recommendations regarding the responsible use of publication metrics, and summarize the key principles outlined in these guidelines.

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(Examples:
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

The Metric Tide

Leiden Manifesto

The Hong Kong Principles

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication)