"ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and in its cooperation with other identifier systems."
Further reading:
Researcher ID by Thomson Reuters "provides a solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research community. Each member is assigned a unique identifier to enable researchers to manage their publication lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification."
Its ORCID compliant and free of charge.
YÖK (Council of Higher Education) started new Researcher ID systems for Turkish University. You may find search your Researcher ID following with visiting to web page which is available below.
http://www.yok.gov.tr/web/acikerisim/yok-arastirmaci-id-sorgula
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