Establishing a unique researcher identity is an important step to improving your research impact.  There are a variety of options for creating a unique identity, with ORCID being the latest development. 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 well supported by many publishers including:

• ORCID from SCOPUS :

  ORCID stands for Open Researcher & Contributor ID, and it provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized to create an ORCID ID, please do the 3 easy steps at https://orcid.org/

• Researcher ID :

  ResearcherID 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. In addition, your ResearcherID information integrates with the Web of Science and is ORCID compliant, allowing you to claim and showcase your publications from a single one account.

  https://www.researcherid.com/
  https://www.researcherid.com/SelfRegistration.action