​What is ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric number that is used to uniquely identify authors and contributors to academic communication, as well as ORCID's website and services for searching for authors and their bibliographic output.

• ORCID = Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier

• ORCID iD = a free, unique, and persistent number that identifies you; crucial for distinguishing yourself from other people

ORCID aims to provide a persistent code for humans to address the problem that recognizing a specific author's contributions to scholarly communication can be difficult because most personal names are not unique, and thus multiple people with the same name, even from the same institutional department, could contribute to the same scholarly field. Furthermore, names might change (for example, with marriage); there are cultural disparities in name ordering rules; journals utilize first-name abbreviations, name suffixes, and middle initials inconsistently; and journals use various writing systems.

Find out how to get an ORCID identifier as a member of UOD's Academic community. And how you may increase your visibility, as well as data visibility, amongst the many information platforms that researchers utilize, such as during paper submission.

How to apply?

Visit ORCID.org to apply for an ORCID in three simple steps. Please use the official spelling of your names as it appears on your passport. The video below will show you how to accomplish this.