Increase Your Scholarly and Professional Visibility

Why use ORCID?

ORCIDs help identify researchers when they:

• Have common names and are hard to tell from others with the same name
• Change names over different life circumstances
• Have names with structures or symbols that online search has difficulty with
• Change roles or institutions

After you create your ORCID iD:

• Connect your iD with your professional information: education, affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.
• On your ORCID profile, add links to all of your other websites, researcher profiles, and social media accounts. 
• Use your iD when submitting journal manuscripts or applying for grants when prompted.
• Add your ORCID iD to your CV, your email signature, and to any other websites or platforms you use.

ResearcherID is a unique identifier that enables authors to track publications and citation metrics in Web of Science.

1. Create or claim your ResearcherID.

If you already have publications indexed by Web of Science, you can claim an automatically generated author record and ResearcherID. Otherwise, you can create a ResearcherID by registering for a researcher profile.

2. Review your researcher profile.

After you create/claim your ResearcherID, make sure the publications listed on your researcher profile belong to you and not to authors with the same or similar names. You may also need to merge duplicate author records to ensure there is a single ResearcherID associated with your publications.

3. Connect your ORCID to your researcher profile.