ORCiD: Establish Your Author Identity

Researchers can encounter challenges when it comes to claiming authorship of academic publications, especially with variations in name usage and the wide range of databases where articles can be published.

One widely accepted tool to address this issue is Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). In addition to establishing your author identity, this resource can be used as a single login for countless journal manuscript submissions, grant applications, and PubMed third-party authentication.

ORCID disambiguates authors of scholarly works through unique, persistent identifiers. It’s like a social security number for your articles, poster abstracts, and presentations. Creating an account allows researchers to get a novel 16-digit number, manage their scholarly activity record, and create a public profile.  More and more publishers ask for ORCID IDs and link new publications to the authors' profile. Information in ORCID can be easily added to NIH tools (listed below in Step 4) and allows you to integrate your profile with your ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID, and MyNCBI.

1. Register for ORCID
2. Help Building Your ORCID Record
3. Control Your Privacy
4. Integrate ORCID with SciENcv: MyNCBI Bibliography is a tool to save your citations from PubMed, or citations entered manually, to a single sharable list. When creating an NIH Biosketch using the SciENcv tool, you can easily add the public link to this bibliography.

With over 15 million researchers registered, those creating ORCID accounts will be in good company.

If you would like assistance setting up your ORCID, contact the library at hsl@geisinger.edu.