ORCID

What is ORCID?

Open Research and Contributor ID, is an open, non-profit community-based effort to provide a registry of unique, persistent identifiers linked to a researcher's scholarly output and grant activities.

Why use ORCID?

• Ensure proper attribution of your work
• Disambiguate your work from that of other researchers with similar names
• Not institution-dependent, stays with you throughout your career
• Many publishers require an ORCID during manuscript submission
• Funders often require an ORCID to link publications to grants
• Meets PID components of Nelson Memo and NSPM 33

More about ORCID

• Visibility settings let you choose how much of your profile to publicly share
• PubMed allows searching for authors by their ORCID
• Can be included in your SciENcv or eRA commons account
• Supports 37 types of output