What ORCID is

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) gives you a free, unique, persistent digital identifier — a 16-digit iD that is yours for life. It is run by an independent non-profit, it is open, and you control it.

What your ORCID record holds

  • Employment and education affiliations;
  • Funding and grants;
  • Publications and other outputs (works);
  • Peer-review and professional activities.
Worked example — an iD and an auto-updating record
An ORCID iD looks like https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097. When you give that iD to a publisher and they add it to a paper’s DOI metadata, the paper appears on your ORCID record automatically — no manual entry, no errors. Enter once, reuse often.

🔗 Learn more (free): ORCID — register for your free iD (takes ~2 minutes)

Try it
Register for an ORCID iD at orcid.org/register, then add one item — an affiliation or a publication. You now have a permanent, portable scholarly identity.

Self-check

What does an ORCID iD give you that a single platform profile (like Google Scholar) does not?

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Modifié le: jeudi 4 juin 2026, 12:41