ORCID

Not to be confused with ORCHID.
For ORCID use on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:ORCID.

ORCID
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Full nameOpen Researcher and Contributor ID
OrganizationORCID, Inc.
Introduced16 October 2012 (12 years ago) (2012-10-16)
No. issued14,727,479
No. of digits16
Check digitMOD 11-2
Examplehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
Websiteorcid.org

The ORCID (/ˈɔːrkɪd/ ⓘ; Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication[1] as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information).

This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the scientific literature or publications can be hard to recognize as most personal names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name abbreviations and employ different writing systems. It provides a persistent identity for humans, similar to tax ID numbers, that are created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).[2]

  1. ^ Sources:
    • "Credit where credit is due". Nature. 462 (7275): 825. 2009. Bibcode:2009Natur.462Q.825.. doi:10.1038/462825a. PMID 20016547. S2CID 110700750.
    • "ORCID website". orcid.org. Retrieved 18 April 2021..
    • Butler, Declan (2012). "Scientists: Your number is up". Nature. 485 (7400): 564. Bibcode:2012Natur.485..564B. doi:10.1038/485564a. PMID 22660298. S2CID 205071928..
    • "Ten things you need to know about ORCID right now". ImpactStory. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
    • Meadows, Alice; Koester, Vera (2015). "ORCID – Unique Author Identifier". Chemviews. doi:10.1002/chemv.201500088.
  2. ^ Crossref & ORCID.