ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent numeric identifier that is unique to you. Having an ORCID helps with author name disambiguation. Often scholarly research and documents are produced by authors that can share the same name which makes it hard to distinguish an author's work. Using ORCID helps with name disambiguation and connects you with a trusted record of your education and employment affiliation, grant funding, research, and work that you have contributed such as presentations or publications.
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Having an ORCiD helps you:
One significant advantage of ORCID is that it is not tied to a particular system, but is universal and can be used across many research information systems. Increasingly, funders and publishers are requiring ORCiDs for submissions. Your ORCID stays with you for life, independent of name or institutional affiliation changes. You own your ORCID, not your employer or publisher.
ORCID supports automatic linkages between you and your professional activities, ensuring that your work is recognized, and simplifying the process of updating your record of work. Some research information systems will automatically update your publications once you include your ORCID with your submission. You can connect with CrossRef, ImpactStory, Scopus, Publons, and others as trusted organizations in ORCID so that your ORCID profile will be automatically updated with information from these systems.
The National Institutes of Health was an ORCID launch partner and you can connect your ORCID to your accounts with this institution to automatically populate your profile in SciencV.
Faculty can also use the data from their ORCID profiles to automatically populate Digital Measures.
Email omacisaa@iu.edu for help setting up up your ORCID, or you can do this on your own by navigating to https://orcid.org/register.
