ORCID
ORCID is a popular research identity website that provides persistent identifiers for researchers and helps connect people with their publications, grants, affiliations, peer review, and other scholarly contributions.
What ORCID is
ORCID is a research identity website at orcid.org that provides persistent identifiers for researchers. An ORCID iD helps distinguish one researcher from another and connects a person with research outputs, affiliations, grants, peer review, and other scholarly activities.
Persistent researcher identifiers
Research names can be ambiguous: people change names, share names, publish with initials, move institutions, and work across languages. ORCID addresses that problem by giving researchers a durable identifier that can follow them across systems and career stages.
Researcher records
An ORCID record can include works, employment, education, funding, peer review, and other professional information. The value is not only the profile page; it is the structured connection between a person and the research activities that belong to them.
Trusted connections
ORCID's public materials emphasize trustworthy connections between researchers and contributions. Publishers, funders, universities, repositories, and research systems can connect to ORCID so records are updated or verified through recognized organizations instead of only manual self-entry.
Organizations and membership
ORCID has membership and organization pages for institutions and systems that need to integrate ORCID iDs into research workflows. These organizations can use ORCID to reduce name ambiguity, improve reporting, and connect researchers with institutional or publisher records.
Documentation and APIs
ORCID provides documentation and API information for developers and organizations. API access matters because ORCID is most useful when identifiers can move through submission systems, repositories, grant platforms, university databases, and other research infrastructure.
Who uses ORCID
ORCID is used by researchers, graduate students, universities, publishers, funders, repositories, librarians, research administrators, data managers, and software teams building scholarly systems. It is especially useful when a person needs a stable research identity across many organizations and publication venues.
Strengths and cautions
ORCID's strength is reducing ambiguity around researcher identity and making scholarly records easier to connect across systems. The cautions are practical: records still need maintenance, privacy settings matter, integrations vary by organization, and an identifier does not by itself verify the quality of a contribution.
Why it matters
ORCID matters because modern research depends on linking people, papers, grants, institutions, datasets, and reviews across many platforms. A persistent identifier helps keep those connections stable even when names, affiliations, and publishing systems change.
WHOIS domain data
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- Domain
- orcid.org
- Registrar
- Network Solutions, LLC
- WHOIS server
- whois.networksolutions.com
- Referral URL
- http://www.networksolutions.com
- Created
- October 29, 2009
- Updated
- August 30, 2025
- Expires
- October 29, 2028
- Nameservers
- frank.ns.cloudflare.com (108.162.193.166); heather.ns.cloudflare.com (172.64.32.161)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited
- Registrant contact location
- Bethesda, MD, US
- Registrant contact phone
- +1.4407751088239
- Registrant contact email
- networksolutions [at] orcid [dot] org