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The ability to accurately know your authors and track their work across the scholarly system is central to sharing, assessing and building trust in research. The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a unique, name-independent identifier for people in the research community, a profile that serves as a hub for research-related affiliations and activities, and a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to permit easy exchange of a researcher's data with the external systems they use.

ORCID is free to researchers and was created so that researchers with the same or similar names can be easily and correctly identified. ORCID also solves the confusion created by variations in a researcher¡¯s name. ORCID behaves like a hub of re-usable profile data, such as affiliation, publication, funding, and other outputs such as data sets, that is propagated throughout nearly 6,000 scholarly systems that researchers interact with, reducing administrative burden on researchers and staff in the research community. Further, it helps researchers demonstrate their identity through these trustworthy scholarly bona-fides that have been added by ORCID members.

ORCID reduces administrative burden by allowing researchers to pre-populate forms when submitting a grant application or manuscript. Work from researchers in the Global South is not often discoverable via major research databases, but ORCID can help improve exposure of their work to the global research community since ORCID records are indexed by Google and other major search engines.

When funders and research institutions add data about the activities and outputs of their affiliated researchers, they can better measure the impact of the research they support. Federal governments advocate use of ORCID because it provides clear provenance of data, establishing transparency and increasing research integrity.

ORCID is a not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from member organizations. To ensure sustainability, ORCID is community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of its membership with wide stakeholder and geographic representation. Since its establishment in 2013, over 20 million ORCID iDs have been issued to researchers in every country and discipline, and 9 million ORCID records were actively used in 2024 (see ).

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