ORCID offers a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for researchers to capture publications, grants, and research activity. Your ORCID identifier is not tied to a company or institution, and persists across job and name changes to provide a consistent record of your scholarship while disambiguating you from others with similar names.
The publications and activity that you capture with your identifier is presented through your ORCID profile, which you can curate and share to showcase your work. All elements of your ORCID profile can be set to public/private, so you can choose what you'd like to show.
ORCID offers a robust API which many publishers and platforms utilize to provide and use data. For example, you can use your ORCID ID to populate your NIH biosketch with publications, and you can include it when you are publishing manuscripts, which allows the publisher to automatically update your profile.
1. Register your ORCID here
2. Add works to your ORCID record
3. Authorize third party updates to your profile where applicable. You will generally be prompted to do this when a third party wants to integrate with your profile, such as importing your papers to another profile platform or publishing a journal article. However, you can review and revoke your third party permissions at any time by clicking your name at the top of the page, then "Trusted parties."
4. Adjust visibility settings to specific sections and citations.
5. Use your ID when submitting papers (if the publisher integrates with ORCID).
6. Link to your profile to advertise your work.
Beginning in FY 2020, any individual who is supported by by research training, fellowships, research education, and career development awards from NIH, AHRQ, and CDC will be required to have ORCID IDs.
Your ORCID ID can be used to populate your biosketch in SciENcv, which is required for NIH and NSF grant applications and reporting.
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