Have you ever tried to search your name in an index to see which of your scholarly publications have been indexed? Below you will find a listing for my name in an index provided by EBSCO. As you can see, there are several different forms of my name in this index.
Several author identification systems have been developed, including ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), ResearcherID, the Scopus Author Identifier and Google Scholar's Citations system. This guide provides information on these author identification systems, and their advantages and disadvantages, to help authors and researchers decide whether to set up an author identifier of their own.
Author identifiers serve several purposes: