Anyone who participates in research, scholarship, or innovation can register an ORCID iD for themselves free of charge, and you can use the same iD throughout your whole career -- even if your name changes or you move to a different organization, discipline, or country.
What does an ORCID iD look like? The ORCID iD is a 16-digit number randomly assigned by the ORCID registry. An example ORCID identifier would have the following structure: 0000-0001-5109-3700. It can be expressed as a URL like this:
Having and using your own ORCID iD ensures that you are correctly identified. You own and control your record, managing what information is connected and how it is shared. For example, major manuscript submission systems have embedded ORCID iDs and over 1,600 journals are now requiring some or all authors to use an iD.
ORCID, Inc. listen); Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information).
ORCID is short for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. (I also like the ring of Open Researcher Community ID, but that is a topic for another blog.) The O stands for open.
We found that, on average, assistant professors have an h-index of 2-5, associate professors 6-10, and full professors 12-24. These are mean or median values only—the distribution of values at each rank is very wide. If you hope to win a Nobel Prize, your h-index should be at least 35 and preferably closer to 70.
Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.
Note: ORCID does not track citations. Times Cited will not display in ORCID.
Create a profile using the "My Citations" link in Google Scholar. You can view who is citing your publications and your own citation metrics. If you make your profile public, it should appear in Google Scholar search results.
To add a work yourself, click Add works, then +Add manually, and a box will appear enabling you to complete for a manual work citation. See our works metadata article for a description of all the fields. We recommend completing the work ID field as many other fields as possible when adding a work.
Connect to your existing works.Select the Search & Link option under Add Works in the Works section of your ORCID record, choose the database you want to connect with, and grant permission for it to access and update your ORCID record.
The first time you sign in using your institutional or social media account from ORCID, you will be asked to connect your ORCID account by signing in using your ORCID username (email address or ORCID iD) and password, and then confirm that the accounts be linked.
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.
Click on the “pencil” icon to open the editing window. In the new window, you can edit the information. You can also select a visibility setting for the work. Works added by another source, such as via a Search & Link wizard, cannot be edited directly by you.
External idsIdentifiers for items on the ORCID record are recorded using the common external-ids tag, this includes identifiers in the person, works, funding, and peer review sections. Identifiers can also be for alternate versions of the work, and can be grouped with self and version of identifiers.
