Last updated: February 25, 2025
Scholar’s Academic Contribution Identifier evaluation process
What is the Academic Contribution Identifier (ACID)? The rapid development of artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies has borne both revolutionary opportunities and distinctive challenges to the digital recording, evaluation, and management of academic contributions. Based on our Reference Citation Analysis system, a unique platform for citation evaluation of biomedical and life science articles, we are able to assign a unique, permanent ACID code and personal website to each scholar, journal, publisher, or research institution. The purpose of the ACID is to provide scholars, journals, publishers or research institutions with a high-quality digital platform to record, evaluate and manage the academic contribution of each article. The benefits of an ACID are threefold, as it facilitates the permanent maintenance and enrichment of scholar’s academic record and article citation analysis, provides evidence of scholar’s academic contributions, and expands scholar’s discoverability and recognition worldwide.
Scholar’s ACID evaluation process
| 1 Preliminary Review: Reliability of applicant’s personal information Name, Country, Category, Keywords, Academic degree and professional title, Biography, Photo, Institution URL, Affiliation, and Social media URLs. |
| 2 Second Review: Accuracy of Checklists for registered information submitted by applicants Personal information, Social media URLs, and Imported articles. |
| 3 Final Review: Academic degree, professional title, and publications’ criteria A: Do the academic degree and professional title meet the criteria for an ACID? Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty, Associate Professor, Doctorate Student/Research Assistant, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, MD, PhD, Post Doctoral Researcher, Professor, Professor Emeritus/Professor Emerita, Researcher, or Senior Researcher. B: Do the published original articles meet the criteria for an ACID? ACID applicants must have published one or more original and innovative article/s as the first or corresponding author in a peer-reviewed academic journal. |
| 4 Release: Scholars who are formally accepted will be assigned an ACID logo, ACID code, and personal website. Our team highly recommends to scholars who have received the ACID code and personal website that they cite them extensively in their personal signatures. For an example on ACID, please visit https://referencecitationanalysis.com/00002527. |