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ORCID (Open Researcher Contributor ID) was released in 17 October 2012 as a way or providing researchers with a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Names are not enough to ensure credit for your work and are inadequate for reliably connecting researchers with their research. Authors publish under different variations of their name or sometimes change their name. ORCID helps reduce the negative consequences of name changes so you will no longer be limited to the name you used when you began your career. An ORCID identifier can ensure that your publications, datasets, and other research outputs are connected with you every time.
It also allows for integration in key research workflows, such as manuscript and grant submission, and supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognised. It has been predicted that ORCID will become the “main ID” in the future.
ORCID is an open, non-profit organisation. ORCID iDs can work in cooperation with other researcher identification systems, such as Scopus, ResearcherID and Research Data Australia.
The advantage of ORCID is that it is not restricted to a particular publisher-based commercial service such as Scopus (Elsevier) or Web of Science (Clarivate). Once registered, authors may manage their record of activities and search for others in the Registry.
ORCID saves you time and increases your visibility
Once you connect your Research Bank profile with your ORCID, your affiliation with UniSC will be confirmed and your ORCID profile will be auto-populated with your works in Research Bank.
Thereafter, when you publish a work - and include your ORCID in your submission - your publication should then be included automatically in your ORCID profile. These automated updates reduces manual work and enhance accuracy with minimal effort.
ORCID also reduces time spent on grant applications.
Both the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council have integrated ORCID within their respective Research Management Systems (RMS).
Using ORCID, you can auto-populate your research outputs (including publications and non-traditional research outputs) into your user RMS profile.
Once saved to your profile, you are able to use these to populate any grant applications, removing the need for repeated manual entry.
Please note that the Australia Research Council's Persistent Identifier (PID) Action Plan includes as Goal 3:
"All named personnel have an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and supply it during the establishment phase of ARC awarded grants."
It is expected that all goals from the ARC PID Action Plan will be achieved by the end of 2026.
Research Bank allows you to link your ORCID profile to your Research Bank profile. This will allow functionality to synchronise your employment and other details, plus publications and outputs between Research Bank and ORCID.
If you think you have an ORCID, but don’t remember the details, ORCID provides support here.
Once you have your ORCID profile, it is important to ensure that it is properly curated.
From within your ORCID profile:
• Add your School or Organisational unit
• Add your institutional & personal email (select "only me" as the privacy setting - this serves as your backup email address)
• Add your biography
• Add all variations of your name (in name section, under "also known as")
• Add your employment and education details
It is highly recommended that you link your ORCID identifier with any other identifiers you have, such as Scopus and ResearcherID. It is also advisable to link your ORCID with the DOI registration agencies, CrossRef and DataCite, to ensure your publications are added to your ORCID profile.
You will need to link any Scopus IDs you have from within the ORCID account pages once you have signed up and received an ORCID ID.
To "Search and Link" your Scopus ID to your ORCID profile:
Instructions on linking to ORCID from Scopus can be found here.
The Web of Science ORCID Wizard is a tool for ORCID users to search researcher profiles and import documents from existing Web of Science records. No Web of Science credentials are needed to import documents. Users can also sync their ORCID and Web of Science accounts for future auto-updates.
To import your publications from your Google Scholar Citation Profile, you will need to first export the publications list from Google Scholar in BibTeX format.
From your Google Scholar Citation profile page, select all your publications, then click Export to a BibTeX file. Once this is saved, login to your ORCID profile and under Works, select Add Works > Import BibTeX, and follow the instructions.
Detailed instructions on how to do this and to import the list into ORCID can be found here.
If you have any datasets shared in Research Data Australia, you can also link these to your ORCID using the ORCID Search & Link Wizard.
