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ORCID

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.

Add Personal Information

After registering for your ORCID, you can add personal information, including a biography, educational background, social accounts, and more to your profile. Adding these things will increase the usefulness of your profile. Get started with edits by signing in to your ORCID account. 

To add other kinds of information to your ORCID record, see Get more out of your ORCID iD.

You can also assign delegates to your account, giving trusted individuals access to update your ORCID record on your behalf. They must have their own ORCID iD to log in. Follow these instructions from ORCID to give them access to your record.

For delegates: Follow these instructions to access the other person’s ORCID record and make updates.

Manage the Visibility and Privacy of Your ORCID Profile

You may control how much of your ORCID record is publicly visible. For both your personal information and information about your works, three settings are available:

  • Public or Everyone: information is available via the ORCID API and visible to visitors to the ORCID website.
  • Trusted parties: information is visible only to individuals and organizations you authorize.
  • Private: information is visible only to you.

For more information, see Visibility Settings in the ORCID Knowledge Base, and ORCID's privacy policy. 

Adding Works to Your ORCID Profile

There are three ways to add works to your ORCID record:

  1. Link your works from another system (recommended)
  2. Import a BibTeX file of your works 
  3. Enter works manually (least preferred)

Populating Your ORCID iD with Data from Other Systems

To begin adding works from CrossRef, ResearcherID, or Scopus, in the "Works" section, select "Add Works" and then "Search and Link." 

search and link

To import citations from any of these databases, choose one and you will launch a search on your name as author. A wizard will prompt you to select your citations and associate them with your ORCID profile. For both Web of Science and Scopus, you will ultimately be assigned a ResearcherID and Scopus AuthorID (if you do not already have one) and these identifiers will be associated with your ORCID.

Note that while you are importing citations, you can choose to have databases automatically update your profile, adding citations whenever you publish.

For more information, see Add works by direct import from other systems in the ORCID Knowledge Base.

If you have already created a Google Scholar profile, you can populate your ORCID profile using the citations listed there. Navigate to your Google Scholar profile and select the citations you'd like to add to ORCID. Click on "Export" and select "BibTeX." Copy your citations into a text editor and save the file as a .bib file with UTF-8 encoding.

 

Next navigate to your ORCID profile. Under "Add Works," select "Import BibTeX." Select your .bib file and complete the import.

For more information, see Importing Works from a BibTeX File in the ORCID Knowledge Base.

Linking ORCiD to My NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Have your ORCID account set-up with publications and other information as you choose.

  1. Go to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (or to PubMed)
  2. You will see "Log in" on the top right corner.
  3. Select a third party to sign in. If you don't have an NCBI Account, register for one.
  4. Once you sign in to NCBI, you will see your username on the top right corner.
  5. Click on your username and select "Account settings."
  6. Use the Change button under Linked Accounts to add your ORCID account.
  7. Click on "Change" and then search for ORCID.
  8. Select it, enter your ORCID username and password, and authorize it. Then you should see your ORCID account listed in your Linked Accounts.
  9. Log out of NCBI
  10. Log back into NCBI but use your ORCID account to do so.  
  11. Click on ORCID and "Sign in."
  12. You'll be logged in to My NCBI and returned to the NCBI account.

You are ready to go to SciENcv.

Integrate SciENcv and eRACommons with ORCID

Explore this video to learn more.

Using ORCiD to Create A SciENcv Biosketch

  1. Click on Dashboard under your name on the "Welcome to NCBI" page.
  2. On the My NCBI main page, scroll down to find SciENcv at the bottom right. If you haven't used SciENcv before, it will be a small box that gives you a link to create a profile. If you've used it before, it will show links to biosketches you've already created. Click to create a profile or on "Manage SciENcv" and then on "Create A New Document."
  3. Fill in the form:
    1. Give your biosketch a name
    2. Select type of profile
    3. Choose ORCID from the "external source" dropdown menu
    4. Click on "Create"
  4. It will automatically pull from ORCID to populate your new biosketch. This may take a couple of minutes.
  5. Scroll down to find the section on Peer-reviewed publications or References. Note: The name of the section will be different for different Biosketch Formats (e.g. section "C. Contribution to Science" in NIH Biosketch; section "C. PRODUCTS" in NSF biosketch).
  6. Click on "Select Citations" and then click on the ORCID tab. Select the articles you want displayed in this biosketch. You will also have the option of selecting from your My Bibliography as well. Once you have checked the ones you want, click on "Save Citations".
  7. The articles you selected should then appear in Section C. You can edit what appears there using the "Edited" option.

The more you fill in your ORCID profile, the more you will be able to pull automatically into SciENcv when you create a biosketch.

Populating Your ORCID iD Manually

If you cannot find your citations in Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, or another database, you can enter them manually. Under either "Funding" or "Works" in your ORCID profile, navigate to "Add manually." ORCID provides some 37 work types that you can choose from when listing citations. These include categories like artistic performance, data set, invention, lecture, and license.

Sample ORCID profile, showing the add works manually screen

For more information, see Add works manually in the ORCID Knowledge Base.