Identify your researchers and track the impact of your institutions’ research by enabling the Affiliation Manager.
This tool is available to consortia members, allows you to add affiliation data to your researchers’ ORCID records quickly, without the need for a developer or specialized IT knowledge.
Four easy steps to easily get started with the affiliation manager
- Register for access to Affiliation Manager
- Login in to the member portal
- Create a CSV file with your researchers affiliation data and upload into the portal
- Send your researchers an email requesting permission to add their affiliation
Get started with your Affiliation manager credentials.

Benefits of using Affiliation Manager to populate ORCID records with affiliation data:
For You
No Technical resource required to build an integration
Easily add and update affiliation data for your researchers
Track your researchers output over time
Get your organization and your researchers the recognition they deserve by making sure research output is correctly affiliated with your organization.
Identify your researchers with a unique persistent identifier.
For your researchers
Improve the visibility of your outputs and ensure researchers get the recognition they deserve
Make it easy share accurate and authoritative information about their affiliation with your institution
Make it easy to share their research and career data with other systems reducing administrative burden.
Gain the benefits of having an ORCID, easy to sign in to other services, to publish papers and record research output, publish peer review activity, employment history and more.
Resources
Documentation
Read more about the functionality of the Affiliation Manager here.
Use Cases on our blog
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Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology and the Value of the ORCID Affiliation Manager
Founded in 2005, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) began as a promotion corporation with the purpose of establishing a university dedicated to contributing to the self-sustaining economic […]
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ORCID and OA Switchboard work to “connect the dots” of PIDs in the Open Access Journey
Open scholarly infrastructure organizations collaborate to navigate the OA research and publishing maze to help solve compliance with emerging requirements. We are excited to announce the first of a series […]
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CIFAR: Innovative Uses of the Affiliation Manager—Invited Positions
ORCID’s Affiliation Manager benefits different organizations and their researchers in unique ways. The Affiliation Manager allows our consortium member organizations to manage data for: Employment, Education and qualifications, Invited positions […]