Researcher profiles in Web of Science are created automatically when publications are indexed in the database, but a user can also create a profile. 

Consult the Web of Science Research Profiles training modules or Help resources for information on how to: 

• Create or manage your researcher profile
• Use your Web of Science researcher profile settings to:
  • add or customize the public presentation of your profile
  • add or remove publications 
  • set your peer review preferences
  • understanding metrics available in your profile 

Web of Science automatically adds publications to your profile for you.  This is automatically enabled for your profile, but you can opt out at any time through your profile settings.

You also have the option to: 

• Sync with ORCID to enable auto-updating 
• Export your Web of Science researcher profile into a PDF or JSON format 

Anyone in the world can view your profile, but users will have varying levels of access to profile details depending on whether they have access to an institutional subscription to Web of Science. 

• Free users have no subscription access to Web of Science and have not registered for a free account.  They come to your profile from a direct link.  You can share the direct link to your profile on a website, like your organization's faculty page for example, or simply by sharing it directly with someone.  Free users will have limited visibility of your profile information.

• Registered users have created a free Web of Science account, but do not have subscription access to Web of Science through an organization.  They can see all of the publications you've placed in your profile, but can only see a selection of your author metrics. Registered users can use Web of Science to search researcher profiles by name or identification number (Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCID), but they cannot search Web of Science article records.

• Web of Science subscribers have full access to Web of Science data based on their organization's subscription.They can:

  • View and edit their own profile
  • View all publications and citation metrics for your profile, and the profiles of others.
  • Search for researcher profiles by name or identifier, search unclaimed author records, and search the rich content of Web of Science article records.