- ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and links their activities such as publications, grants, and affiliations. This helps solve the problem of name ambiguity and allows improved discoverability of researchers' work.
- Over 400,000 identifiers have been issued in the first year with adoption and integration growing, including by universities, publishers, and funders seeking to automate linking in research workflows.
- ORCID is a not-for-profit organization with a registry of persistent IDs that can be used across systems and organizations to identify researchers and their work over their entire careers.