DISTINGUISH YOURSELF IN THREE EASY STEPS
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. Find out more
REGISTER
- Get your unique ORCID identifier Register now!
- Registration takes 30 seconds.
ADD YOUR INFO
- Enhance your ORCID record with your professional information and link to your other identifiers (such as Scopus or ResearcherID or LinkedIn).
USE YOUR ORCID ID
- Use your ORCID iD when prompted in processes such as manuscript submission and grant proposals and reporting (e.g. eRA Commons).
- Link your ORCID iD to (or include it in your profile for) other services, including Publons, figshare, and your professional organizations.
- Include your ORCID iD on conference posters (generate a QR code, if you like, right from your ORCID record page), to direct people to your works.
- Consider including your ORCID on your webpage, in social media accounts, and in your email signature.
TIPS
- Make your works public. This maximizes the potential for integration of your ORCID iD into other systems, and automatic updating of databases to attach your iD to your works.
- Add at least some personal information (brief bio, education and/or employment) to your ORCID record, and make it public. This can help others distinguish you from people with the same name if they don't know your ORCID iD.
- Add name variants, if you have published under other names or variations of your name.