ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier to uniquely distinguish researchers, facilitating machine-readable connections among their works and affiliations. Over 1.3 million researchers have registered for an ORCID identifier, which aids in the attribution and discoverability of their work. The platform supports seamless integration with various research systems, allowing for automatic updates and management of research outputs.

1. orcid.org
Contact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
ORCID Adoption and Use by the
Research Community
SARIMA Workshop, 11 May 2015
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

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Digital scholarly communications require
information that is machine readable

3. Names are not digital
• Different versions (full
name vs. initials)
• Shared names
• Transliteration
• Accents and other ALT
characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
J. Å. S. Sørensen
J.Aa. S. Sørensen
J. Åge S. Sørensen
J.Aage S. Sørensen
J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
J.Aage Smaerup Sørensen

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What is ORCID?
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier – a
machine-readable name – that distinguishes
researchers from each other
Member-built integrations in key research workflows
such as manuscript and grant submission support
automated linkages between researchers and their
professional activities and affiliations, ensuring that
works are appropriately attributed and discoverable
ORCID serves as a hub enabling machine-readable
connections between identifiers for organizations,
works, and person IDs

5. ORCID provides plumbing for
research information – and the
tools to build trust in digital
information
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6. Building trust:
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• Tools to allow for easy addition of identifiers (for
people, places, and things) during publishing, grant
application, thesis deposit, etc.
• Engage the community to embed, authenticate, and
assert

7. Researcher Responsibility
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To benefit from ORCID, researchers
need only do two things:
① Register
② Use iD
No membership or fee is needed by the
individual or their employer.

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Over 1.3 million researchers have registered for
an ORCID identifier.
Through their actions, ORCID identifiers are
associated with:
• 2.1 million unique DOIs
• >20 thousand unique organizations

9. ORCID responsibility
Build the infrastructure:
• Engage the community to embed identifiers
• Ensure that the iD is published with the paper /
dataset / grant / thesis, etc.
• Encourage the community to push metadata back to
update individual’s record
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10. Integration in research systems
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Over 200 members and nearing 200
integrations in every region and sector of the
international research community.
Americas
48%
EMEA
36%
Asia Pacific
16%
Funder
7%
Publishing
16%
Repository
20%
Research
Institute
45%
Association
12%

11. Registry use in Africa
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ORCID Registry traffic from
African countries represents
about 3% of total usage.
Cairo
Tunis
Lagos
Algiers
Giza
Cape Town
Pretoria
Alexandria
Abuja
Addis Ababa
Johannesburg
Casablanca
Accra
Nairobi
Rabat
4 members in Africa:
• GIBS
• Hindawi
• Stellenbosch University
• University of Cape Town
Over 7000 registered users,
most in South Africa, Egypt,
Nigeria,Tunisia, Ghana, Kenya,
Botswana
Top 15 cities in Africa, by usage:

12. Regional & national approach
• Austria: Funder requirement 2016
• Finland: National recommendation 2015
• Australia: National recommendation 2015
• Denmark: University launch 2014
• Spain: Launched 2 consortia in 2014
• Portugal: Funder requirement 2013
• Sweden: National recommendation 2013
• UK: National recommendation 2012
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13. Leveraging existing standards
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ORCID works collaboratively
with the research community
to ensure adoption and use of
research information standards

14. “We want to use ORCIDs to simplify
the life of Oxford’s researchers for
working with institutional systems and
publishers’ systems by re-using already
available information for publication
data management and reporting.
The motto is: Input once – re-use
often.”
Wolfram Horstmann,Assoc. Director, Bodleian Libraries,
University of Oxford
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-6104
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Research institutions

15. …using iDs across systems
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• Click and Create
• Library Guide
• Training Sessions
• Theses and Dissertations
http://libguides.kaust.edu.sa/orcid
http://orcid.kaust.edu.sa/

16. …which validates affiliation information
and enables tracking of research outputs
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17. ORCID iDs are being embedded in articles

18. …and publication search engines
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The author can pre-populate
submission form fields:
preferred name, affiliation,
funding
The authenticated iD becomes
a part of the paper
Upon publication, the iD is
indexed by CrossRef, Scopus,
Web of Science, and other
services.
Information flows to ORCID
and on to linked platforms
Coming in 2015:

20. • Over 180,000 articles have been
submitted to CrossRef with an associated
ORCID iD
• These will start to flow into the ORCID
registry this year
• Researchers who use their ORCID iD
when they publish will not need to
manually update their record in
ORCID or in connected systems
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Association membership systems …

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... and grants…

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…and data management
… and datasets…
Witt 2014
PeerJ 2015

24. How does ORCID work?
• Registry allows researchers to connect to
existing works and affiliations
• Members build integrations to connect
researchers to new works and affiliations
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25. • Take 30 seconds to
register at
http://orcid.org/register
• Free to researchers
• Individual owns the
record and controls
privacy settings
• Works on laptops,
tablets, and phones
Register for your

26. Getting started
Use free tools to connect your ORCID identifier to your name
variations, other IDs, affiliations, and existing works and funding

27. Link to existing works
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Connect your ORCID iD to
existing works by using tools in
ORCID interface or in external
platforms
Researchers can
connect to existing
works and push
ORCID iD into
indexes including
Web of Science,
Scopus, and Europe
PubMedCentral

28. Updating award information
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Researchers can connect
to existing projects AND
can receive updates when
grant awarded
Funders can
embed ORCID iD
during the grant
application
workflow
ORCID record includes,
funder name, grant number,
source, source provenance

29. Link to organization
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• List auto-populates based
on type-ahead
• All organizations have
unique iD
• University or employer can
pre-populate and validate
association
• Can associate with multiple
organizations

30. Implementation continuum
Researchers register as
individuals
Capture ORCID using
authentication
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Connect ORCID to one
university system
Connect ORCID to
many university systems
Synchronize ORCID
Registry with local data
No fee, requires internet connection
No fee, Public API, requires local
database and IT resources
Basic member fee, Member API,
requires local DB and IT resources
Basic or premium member fee,
local DB and IT resources
Premium member fee,
local DB, IT resources
Synch integration across
organizations
Consortium