ORCID
The Open Researcher and Contributor ID, ORCID for short, is a non-profit organization that assigns unique and indefinitely valid identification numbers for scientific authors.
ORCID iD
These numbers are used by many ORCID members (including academic institutions, publishers, research funders and professional associations) to identify authors. The ORCID iD consists of sixteen digits represented in blocks of four. As part of an ORCID web address, it refers to a person's ORCID profile, in which further data can be stored, for example:
- Name variants to make biographical name changes or different spellings and attributions of a name traceable
- Addresses of websites or blogs
- Links to other identity management services and author profiles (e. g. Google Scholar profile, ISNI, ResearcherID).
Advantages of ORCID iD
Submission of publications
Many publishers and funding agencies will ask you to provide your ORCID iD when submitting publications or applications. This is to ensure that you are uniquely identified as an individual and that all your publications can be attributed to you. Overall, an ORCID iD can facilitate and improve the submission of publications by enabling unique identification and linking of research activities.
ORCID in literature and citation databases
If you include an ORCID iD in your publications and it is included in the bibliographic data of literature databases, all of your published works will be found during a literature search and attributed to you. You will also ensure that all publications recorded in the database are taken into account when calculating bibliometric indicators such as citation counts or h-index.
ORCID profile
ORCID allows you to maintain your academic profile in one central location, making career steps or changes in affiliation and institution visible. You can specify name variants and refer to other author profiles such as the ResearcherID from Web of Science or the Scopus Author ID. You can adjust the visibility of each entry using privacy settings.
ORCID in Germany
The central point of contact for German higher education and research institutions is the ORCID Germany consortium, which is also supported by the SUB Göttingen as a founding member. The consortium emerged from the ORCID DE project, which was initiated by the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG ).
The DINI certificate, a seal of quality for Open Access publication services, recommends offering the option of registering the ORCID iD.
Further information on ORCID iD can be found in the FAQs of the ORCID Germany consortium.
ORCID at the University of Göttingen
The affiliation policy (§ 9) of the University of Göttingen (incl. University Medical Center Göttingen) recommend the use of the ORCID iD (Open Researcher Contributor iD).
In the publication management system GRO.publications, the ORCID iD can be specified in the profile. You can link your ORCID profile with your profile in GRO.publications to enable data exchange between the systems (e. g. automatically transfer current publications to GRO.publications).
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