Guide: ORCID: Use your ORCID iD

Why are research funders integrating ORCID into their application processes and reporting workflows?

For the funders, using ORCID iDs can help them process applications and then track publications, datasets and other outputs that result from the awards. 

For the researchers, using an ORCID iD can cut down data entry in applications and help in providing reports on the outputs from the research funding. It also enables the researcher to keep a record of all the funding that they've been awarded throughout their research career. 

Where will you come across this ORCID integration? 

ResearchFish (link below) - a service for the reporting of outcomes for research impact tracking - has integrated ORCID iDs into its submission process. This allows you to push data from ResearchFish to your ORCID record but also pull publications listed on your ORCID profile to ResearchFish.

The 'UK Research Councils' (link below) are capturing ORCID iDs in the 'Joint Electronic Submission System' (link below) - you can connect or create your ORCID iD by logging in to your personal information page. This means that RCUK can receive data from the ORCID registry that will identify articles published that arise from RCUK funding. This will cut down the reporting burden on researchers. RCUK will also be able to track the careers and publication histories of RCUK-funded researchers. 

The 'Wellcome Trust' (link below) mandated ORCID iDs as part of their grant application process in August 2015.  

There are lots of other uses for your ORCID iD that will raise your profile and tie together your research and professional activities.

• Link your ORCID iD to or include it in your profile for other services, such as 'ResearcherID' , 'figshare' (links below) and your professional organisations.


• Include your ORCID iD on conference posters to direct people to your works. You can even generate a QR code from your ORCID iD profile page.

• Add your ORCID iD to your webpage, institutional profile page, CV, social media accounts, and in your email signature. If you're active on LinkedIn, academia.edu, Mendeley or ResearchGate, you can also include it there.

For more ideas on what to do with your ORCID iD now you have got it, take a look at these two great blog posts:

• Six ways to make your ORCID iD work for you (link below)
• Ten things you need to know about ORCID right now (link below)

When displaying your ORCID iD, ORCID recommends using the entire URL and ORCID iD logo:  

What are the advantages of publishers integrating ORCID into their workflows?

• You can have a single sign-in step to a manuscript submission system rather than having to complete a long form each time
• Your preferred version of your name and your institutional affiliation will be used on each publication so that you get appropriate credit for all your outputs
• If your paper is accepted, your ORCID iD may be included in the metadata. This means it will be easier for others to find and the publisher can add it to your ORCID profile automatically (if you have given them permission)
• Authors and reviewers can be correctly identified during the manuscript submission and review process
• If you are providing a peer review for a journal, this peer review activity can be added to your ORCID record.
• If a journal uses open peer review, a link to the completed review can be added to your ORCID profile. This means that you get credit for all your professional academic activities

Where will you come across this ORCID integration?

There is a group of 8 publishers who, since the start of 2016, require all corresponding authors submitting papers to its journals to provide an ORCID iD. They include 'PLOS', 'Science', 'eLife' and 'The Company of Biologists' (links below). The full list and more information is available from the link below.

Other publishers collecting ORCID iDs as part of their publishing processes include 'Elsevier', 'Nature Publishing Group', 'Oxford University Press', 'Taylor & Francis' and 'Wiley' (links below).

How can the ORCID iD be linked to manuscript submission systems?

You can link your ORCID iD to many journal submission systems such as , ScholarOne, Editorial Manager, eJournalPress, HighWire's Bench>Press and some versions of OJS. Please see the 'Associate your ScholarOne account with your ORCID iD' and 'Confirming an ORCID iD in Editorial Manager' video links below for more information.