Interoperability is the whole point

The reward for setting up your identity properly is the virtuous circle of interoperability: enter information once and it flows everywhere it is needed.

How to wire it together

  • Link your ORCID to publishers, funders, and your institution’s system.
  • Turn on auto-updates so works added to a DOI (via Crossref) appear on your record.
  • Use ROR (the Research Organization Registry) so your institution is identified unambiguously too.
  • Keep profiles current — a stale profile undersells you.
Worked example — one action, everywhere
You add your ORCID iD when submitting a paper → the publisher embeds it in the DOI metadata (Crossref) → the paper auto-appears on your ORCID record → your Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar profiles pick it up. You acted once; your whole scholarly footprint updated.

🔗 Learn more (free): Crossref — how DOIs and metadata connect your work

Try it
In your ORCID account, open the “Trusted organizations” / auto-update settings and connect one publisher or funder. From now on, eligible works will flow in automatically.

Self-check

In your own words, describe the “enter once, reuse often” circle from submitting a paper to your profiles updating.

© FRELIP, released under CC BY 4.0. Adapted in part from openly-licensed UNESCO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) and institutional research-support materials. Linked resources remain under their own licences. Curated by the FRELIP Open Courseware editorial team.

Última modificación: jueves, 4 de junio de 2026, 12:41