Guide
How to Find an ORCID iD: A Practical Guide
How to find your own ORCID iD, look up someone else's, and reconcile ORCID across an institution — without manual searching for thousands of researchers.
May 18, 2026
Journal Impact Factor Explained: What It Measures, What It Misses
What the Journal Impact Factor actually is, what a "good" JIF looks like, where it helps, where it misleads, and how to use it responsibly under DORA and CoARA.
May 17, 2026
Institutional ORCID Adoption: A Practical Strategy
ORCID is the single most effective lever for research-data accuracy. A practical institutional adoption strategy that actually sticks.
May 17, 2026
Journal and Researcher Metrics: A Guide for Research Offices
Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, h-index, FWCI — what each metric measures, where it misleads, and how a RIMS keeps decisions evidence-led.
May 16, 2026
Security and GDPR Checklist for Research Systems (for CIOs)
The RIMS security and GDPR checklist for CIOs: data residency, encryption, RBAC, audit logs, and the three GDPR controls that are non-negotiable before deployment.
May 15, 2026
Research Impact and Open Science: A Strategic Guide
Why impact and openness are now strategic, how to evidence impact beyond citations, and how reliable data turns it into a defensible institutional narrative.
May 15, 2026
Migrating to a New RIMS: A Data Migration Playbook
Migration is a chance to fix attribution and duplication, not preserve it. A source-led migration playbook that avoids importing old problems.
May 14, 2026
Core RIMS Capabilities Explained: From Profiles to Analytics
A practical capability map for evaluating a RIMS: researcher profiles, unified publications, collaboration and impact analytics, and reporting.
May 14, 2026
RIMS Implementation Timeline and Change Management
Time to value is decided as much by change management as software. A realistic phased timeline and the organisational work that drives adoption.
May 13, 2026