ORCID
Publishing & metrics
A free, persistent researcher identifier (orcid.org) that disambiguates you from same-named authors and travels with your publications across journals and funders.
ORCID is a free, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher, including those who share your name. It solves a genuine problem in academic publishing: name variants, transliteration differences, changed surnames and common names routinely fragment or misattribute a publication record.
The identifier stays with you across institutions, countries and career stages. Your ORCID record holds your affiliations, publications, funding and peer-review activity, and can be set to update automatically as new work is indexed, so the record maintains itself once configured.
Most major publishers now require an ORCID from at least the corresponding author at submission, and many funders and universities require it for reporting. Registration takes a few minutes at orcid.org and it is worth doing before your first submission rather than retrofitting a publication history later.
Where it's used
- Required or requested at submission by most reputable journals
- Keeping your publication record unified across name variants and institutions
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