Scholarly Communication

ORCiD helps uniquely identify you as a researcher and is the most widely adopted cross platform identifier. 

• Many major publishers and funders use ORCiD. Some will require you to have an ORCiD.
• Your ORCiD acts as a glue for all your research research searvies. You can connect with repositories, researcher profiles, and other scholarly ID systems, such as Web of Science and Scopus.

Are you John Smith? J. Smith? J.A. Smith? John A. Smith?

Do you have a common name? Have published some articles with your middle initiation, some with your first initial, and others with your fill name? Have you changed your name at some point during your research career? 

ORCiD solves the problem of name differences. Collect all your work under one profile - no matter what name it is published under.