ORCID allows you to create a unique author identifier for yourself to specifically identify your publications. This guide provides information on creating and managing your ORCID profile.
Eliminate name ambiguity: Distinguish yourself from people with identical names, connect different forms of your name, and create a record that persists even if you change your name.
Link your work to you: Correctly link you to your publications, grants, and other professional activities and research outputs. ORCID even has integrations to automatically add publications, datasets, peer review, and grants to your record from trusted sources.
Create a record you control: Your ORCID isn’t tied to your institution, so you use the same ORCID no matter where your career takes you and you are the one who gets to decide what information is visible (See ORCID's privacy policy.)
Streamline publication, grant application, and other processes: Use your ORCID login for grant application and journal submission systems, pull data from your ORCID record rather than entering it again, and connect your research activities across many systems in one place.
The ORCID Advantage
ORCIDs have already been integrated into workflows used by a variety of publishers, funders, and research organizations. The result is that citations can be automatically pushed to and from your ORCID profile with minimal effort on your part.
