Guest Post: A Researcher Writes about ORCID
[After AuthorAID featured ORCID as a Resource of the Week, Brazilian researcher Dr. Antonio A. R. Neves submitted a post based on his experience with ORCID. Here is a slightly condensed version. Thank you, Antonio! —Barbara]
This post is about ORCID, which is pronounced “oar kid” and stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. Yes, this is another profile ID. It is somewhat like Researcher ID and Scopus ID but somewhat different. I’ll talk about this unique identifier from my experience.
The main reason for such an ID resembles that for a DOI for journal papers. The Web address of a paper might change, but with its DOI you can trace the paper to its new location. Some people have multiple forms of their names or change their names after marriage. To keep track of a researcher and his or her works lifelong, it makes sense to have a unique identifier.
I use Scopus Author Identifier, ResearcherID, and ORCID. I can use the first two because my university subscribes to these private databases, but ORCID is open to all! I can use ORCID to clean up my profile associated with these private databases. For example, one might be less complete than the other for my field of research, but I can merge all my publications into my ORCID profile.
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To start, sign up for an ORCID.
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Next, follow the instructions in this presentation to import your publications from your Scopus author ID.
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If you wish, also follow the instructions in the link above to transfer the contents from ORCID back to ResearcherID.
With the Open movement gaining momentum, I believe that ORCID is here to stay. Some journals already ask authors to supply their ORCIDs when submitting manuscripts. I hope this post helps colleagues to populate their ORCID profiles most efficiently.
Antonio A. R. Neves
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-8573