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.

Get the Most Out of Your ORCID Record

Managing your research across different systems, institutions, and stages of your career can be exhausting. ORCID is here for you—across your career, disciplines, and borders—helping researchers maintain a trusted, connected research identity and leaving them with more time for research. Once you make verified connections with institutions you trust and work with, you can allow them to add data about you. You can also use your ID to sign into other systems, autofill forms, and sync your data across platforms. Learn how to get the most out of our your ORCID record.

Connect Your Data and Learn About Our 2025 Progress!

How does your ORCID data connect with other systems?

You can think of your ORCID record as a digital passport, zipping between disconnected systems, ensuring that institutions know who you are and that you get credit for your work. Read more here.

New! Researcher Connect

A new member benefit called Researcher Connect allows institutions to notify affiliated ORCID users to connect with home institution systems and add affiliations on their ORCID record.

ORCID’s Community Town Hall and Annual Report

Missed ORCID’s Community Town Hall? Members of the Senior Team shared highlights from our 2025 Annual Report. Watch the replay now.