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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.

ORCID LogoWhy 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

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