Research

Having an ORCID gives you the following benefits:

• Accurate author identification
• Online user profile
• Publication list
• Ability to combine and deduplicate  Scopus ID
• User privacy controls
• Well supported by many publishers & required by some.
• Your profile follows you when you change institutions or have multiple affiliations

Additionally, ORCID is an open, non-profit and community-driven effort. Its registry offers an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current researcher ID schemes.

ORCID has the following limitations:

• No citation metrics available
• Generally does not recognise duplicate publication records well at the moment

Include your ORCID identifier on your researcher profile page, in your signature block, on publication submissions, grant applications, and in any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work. It is a good idea to link it to other identifiers such as ReseacherID and Scopus Author ID so that all your works can be readily associated with your research profile.

ORCID allows you to link to your profile with other databases.

In particular, ORCID:

• integrates with Web of Science allowing you to exchange data between ORCID and ResearcherID, including your profile information and your publication list
• integrates with Scopus Author ID allowing you to import publications associated with your Scopus Author ID

There are a few different ways to add publications to your ORCID profile: