Using ORCID

Populating an ORCID Profile

Enrich your ORCID profile by adding:

  • Education
  • Employment history
  • Alternate names and variations
  • Keywords (ex. areas of interest)
  • Funding information, and more.

Example of an ORCID profile

Source: Example ORCID profile

What Works Can be Added?

Many vendors and publishers already work with ORCID. Citations of publications, data sets, conference presentations can be often be imported.

Citations can be imported from many databases including: Web of Science, Scopus, MLA International Bibliography, CrossRef Metadata Search.

More information about importing works

Using Your ORCID ID

Provide your ID when submitting manuscripts and grant proposals. Many publishers require ORCID ID’s from authors during the publication, submission process. Some of the publishers include:

  • American Chemical Society
  • EMBO
  • Frontiers
  • IEEE
  • PLoS
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Science
  • Wiley

Complete list of participating publishers.

Include your ID on webpages, faculty profiles, blogs and social media accounts.

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