LibGuides: Managing Author Profiles Online: ORCID

ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) (‘or-kid) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of persistent unique digital identifiers which are linked to researchers' scholarly and grant activities.

Enhance your ORCID record with your professional information and link to your other identifiers (such as Scopus or ResearcherID or LinkedIn). Include your ORCID identifier on your Webpage, when you submit publications, apply for grants etc.

ORCID is being adopted by:

publishers as the primary means of distinguishing their authors for manuscript submission
grant funders for grant applications and reporting.

With an ORCID identifier, researchers can manage:

entire scholarly output including journal articles, books and book chaprters, datasets, equipment, media stories, citations, experiments, patents, and more;
grant activities.

ORCID is integrated with ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID to exchange data both ways. Once signed into your ORCID profile, go to Works > Add Works > Search & link > "ResearcherID" OR "Scopus to ORCID".

Import publications from Google Scholar, EndNote, and other sources supporting BibTex format.

ORCID integrators
See publishers, societies, and grant funders adopting ORCID.

Register for ORCID

Registration for an ORCID ID is easy:

Go to https://orcid.org/register
Fill out the form
Select privacy settings and notifications
Accept Terms of Use

Add variants of your name, country, keywords to describe areas of interest, personal websites, personal information, education, and employment.

Add Publications to ORCID Profile

To add publications to your ORCID profile, you can:

Link publications, datasets, and other objects with DOIs from sources such as CrossRef, DataCite, ResearcherID, Scopus and more.
Add them manually.
Import BibTex files from Google Scholar or reference managers such as EndNote.

Depending on the discipline, stage of academic career and number of publications, it may be more productive to first create and populate ResearcherID and/or Scopus Author ID profiles and then import the publication data to ORCID.

ResearcherID and ORCID Integration
Find out how to authorise data exchange between Researcher ID and ORCID.
Scopus Author ID and ORCID Integration
Find out how to import your Identifier, profile and publications. The Scopus Author Feedback wizard helps you find the correct Scopus profile and to confirm your publications. You can then import the identifier and list of publications into ORCID. Any changes you make will be submitted to the Feedback team to update your Scopus profile.
Import from Google Scholar (and EndNote) using BibTex
Find out how to export BibTeX Files from your Google Scholar Citations Profile and import them into ORCID. (If you are using EndNote, choose "Select Another Style" in the Bibliographic Output Style dropdown list, then search and choose "BibTeX Export". To export your references, go to File > Export, and select the Output Style as “BibTeX Export" and save as a “Text File”. To import the BibTeX Files into ORCID, follow the steps in the link above.)

Types of Works Supported by ORCID

Limitations of ORCID

No citations metrics within ORCID at this time.

No authomatic de-duplication for publications imported from different sources.

No importing wizard for patents (may be added manually or through Google Scholar Citations importing).

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to Ms Natasha Arguello and UTSA Libraries for allowing us to adapt their Author Profiles LibGuide.