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ORCID iD
Sign in to saveThe ORCID (; Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary persistent identifier, in the form of an alphanumeric code, to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication.
Key facts
- Identifier.image
- ORCID logo with tagline.svg
- Identifier.image_border
- no
- Identifier.name
- ORCID
- Identifier.full_name
- Open Researcher and Contributor ID
- Identifier.number
- 14,727,479
- Identifier.digits
- 16
- Identifier.check_digit
- MOD 11-2
- Identifier.example
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097 ("Josiah S. Carberry")
- Identifier.organization
- ORCID, Inc.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- International Standard Name Identifier
- Official website
- orcid.org
- Has parts of class
- check digit
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- Commons category
- ORCID
- start time
- 2012-10-16
- format as a regular expression
- 0000-000(1-[5-9]|2-[0-9]|3-[0-4])[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}[0-9X]
- language of work or name
- English language
- quantity
- 11496507
- search formatter URL
- orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=$1
- described at URL
- pub.orcid.org/v2.0/identifiers
- facet of
- open science
- short name
- ORCID
- API endpoint URL
- pub.orcid.org/resources/swagger.json
- maintains linking to
- Scopus
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/orcid
- inception
- 2012-10-16
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Development and launch
- Adoption
- Identifiers
- Members, sponsors and registrants
- National implementations
- Integrations
- See also
- References
- External links
The ORCID (; Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary persistent identifier, in the form of an alphanumeric code, to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication.
This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the scientific literature or humanities publications can be hard to recognize, as most personal names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name abbreviations and employ different writing systems. It provides a persistent identity for humans, similar to tax ID numbers, that are created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ORCID iD” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.