ORCID is for…

Researchers

Universities & Research Institutes

Publishers

Vendors & Service Providers

Government & Policy Makers

Funders & Facilities

ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Learn how ORCID can help you spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it. Learn more.

Uniquely Yours

Distinguish yourself and claim credit for your work no matter how many people have your same (or similar) name. Sign up here.

Portable profile data

Easily share data between your record and funding, publications, data repositories, and other research workflows.

ORCID allows universities and research institutions to stay up to date with their researchers’ outputs, reduce administrative burden and input errors, and helps their researchers, post-docs, employees, and students improve the discoverability of their work. Learn more.

Support research productivity

Let your researchers spend more time on their research by reducing administrative burden

Track Careers

Track researchers’ and graduates’ careers after they leave your institution as well as collaborators and peers at other institutions.

Publishers that integrate with ORCID can streamline workflows for authors, editors, and reviewers alike. ORCID improves the overall value of books and journals to the community, helping ensure that publishers have greater retention of authors and readers. Learn more.

Know your authors

Better know who your authors, co-authors, and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes.

Improve discoverability

Help your authors improve their visibility and improve the discoverability of their works and contributions by the scholarly community.

Vendors and service providers that connect their services to the ORCID Registry join our ecosystem of over 5,000 ORCID-integrated systems. Providing this service increases the value they provide to the scholarly community with authoritative, high-quality profile data. Learn more.

Increase ROI

Increase the ROI of your platform and create better insights for the organizations you work with.

Improve discoverability

Increase the value you provide to the scholarly community with authoritative, high-quality profile data.

ORCID helps governments and policy makers elevate the integrity of their region’s research with trustworthy data, which serves to better align research and national PID and infrastructure strategies with global community standards. Learn more.

Know your researchers

Better know who your researchers are and improve the integrity of your assessment and reporting processes.

Align research strategy

Better align your research, PID, or infrastructure strategy with global community standards

ORCID integrated systems reduce administrative burden for research funding agencies and major facilities that award access to resources. With less time and effort spent administering awards, they can better measure the impact of their awards. Learn more.

Know your researchers

Better know who your applicants and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes

Track your impact

Improve your ability to track the impact of your awards and your awardees, even beyond the period of performance.

ORCID’s Community Trust Network Aims to Elevate Trust and Integrity in the Scholarly Record

Multiple factors contribute to the crisis of fraudulent research, and ORCID’s member organizations—our Community Trust Network — play an important role in helping to elevate trust and integrity in the scholarly record.

Data added to ORCID records is accompanied by trust markers that highlight that data came from a validated source—an ORCID member. Over time, as more and more ORCID members add validated data to the ORCID Registry, the more trust markers there are in the data, and the more robust the entire scholarly record becomes.

Learn more about Trust Markers

ORCID Record Summaries

Learn more about how ORCID Record Summaries provide an easy way to visualize trust markers and better understand the contents of an ORCID record.

Use Case: Vetting Applicants

ORCID trust markers help PhysioNet streamline qualification of applicants seeking access to sensitive data.

Use Case: Assessing Author Integrity

ORCID trust markers help Ripeta assess the quality of reporting and the robustness of authors and the scientific method.