ORCID
What is ORCID?
ORCID is a nonprofit organization helping create a world in which all who participate in research, scholarship and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions and affiliations, across disciplines, borders, and time.
ORCID 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.
"ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from our member organizations. We are community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of our membership with wide stakeholder representation. ORCID is supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff."
What is ORCID? @ORCID_Org
Names are not enough to ensure credit for your work and are inadequate for reliably connecting researchers with their research outputs. Learn how the ORCID identifier can ensure that your publications, datasets, and other research outputs are connected with you every time.
16 July 2016
Register for your unique and free ORCID iD at https://orcid.org/register.
What is ORCID? @ORCID_Org
16 July 2016
"ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. We provide ORCID to researchers free of charge so that we may realize our vision of connecting all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time. " Source: ORCID
"People use “ORCID” or “ORCID iD” interchangeably, but what they’re talking about is a 16-digit number and the associated record (sometimes called a profile) that stores automatic links to all your research, and links all your research with you. By allowing trusted organizations to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it." Source: ORCID
Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work while controlling access to your data, no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name.
Easily share your data between your record and an increasing number of funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.
By allowing trusted organizations to add your research information to your ORCID record, you can spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it!
Reduced admin burden
Experience greater ease as an increasing number of manuscript submission or grant application forms can be auto-populated when you log into their systems with your ORCID, like NIH Biosketch, ScienCV, CiênciaVitae, Portuguese FCT, and OJS.
Connecting researchers to their research
In your record, you have access to nearly 1,200 integrations across research and academic institutions, publishers, funders, and other service providers and more are being added all the time! Learn how to connect your record here.
ORCID helps reduce the negative consequences of name changes so you will no longer be limited to the name you used when you began your career.
Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work while controlling access to your data, no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name.
Reduced admin burden
Experience greater ease as an increasing number of manuscript submission or grant application forms can be auto-populated when you log into their systems with your ORCID
Easily share your data between your record and an increasing number of funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.
Organization identifiers are a key component of the ORCID vision: the ability and responsibility for employers of researchers to assert affiliation, associating the person’s ORCID iD with the organization iD and stamping that relationship with a provenance link. That assertion, in turn, can be shared by the researcher as they interact with publishers, funders, and other organizations they are affiliated with.
Researcher Visibility
Top Tip! Include your ORCID in your email signature
Ensure your work is discoverable
Did you know the visibility of each piece of data in your ORCID record is controlled by you? Learn how to adjust visibility to make your work discoverable—or keep some things private or shared only with your trusted organizations. It’s up to you!
ORCID helps reduce the negative consequences of name changes so you will no longer be limited to the name you used when you began your career.
ORCID links all your research together, while you control the visibility of each piece of data. Set your visibility to public to increase your discoverability!
Easily share your data between your record and an increasing number of funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.
Enhance discoverability of your funding history
Add funding information to your record by manually, or by importing from other systems such as DimensionsWizard.
The more well-populated ORCID records there are, the more value that both researchers and the entire community can gain from participating in ORCID.
Here are some helpful tips that you can do right now to optimize your ORCID record. You can also browse our support articles for more ideas.
Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work while controlling access to your data, no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name.
ORCID @Rhodes
NRF Statement: ORCID
On Friday 7 April 2015 the National Research Foundation (NRF) distributed an ORCID statement requiring all researchers and students applying for funding and rating to have an ORCID identifier.
Publishers use ORCID to clearly link authors and reviewers—and all their name variants—with their research work, by embedding ORCID iDs into their publication metadata and displaying them on finished publications.
Rhodes University Theses submissions
Rhodes University postgraduate students are required to provide their ORCID when they submit their thesis/dissertation for examination
