ORCID for Journal Editors
Trust Markers found in ORCID records provide valuable context that helps streamline research integrity workflows, identify appropriate reviewers, reduce burden on your reviewers and staff, and protect the reputation of your journal.
ORCID is an easy-to-use, online profile system popular among researchers and peer reviewers that provides trustworthy data that has been added by authenticated third parties—and available in a summarized view—that can help you protect the reputation of your journal and increase its global visibility. As a Journal Editor who works on academic journals, an ORCID certified manuscript submission system will enable you to:
- streamline research integrity checks,
- demonstrate your commitment to research integrity principles,
- get to know your contributors’ expertise and experience,
- decrease friction for contributors by letting researchers sign in with ORCID,
- give valuable recognition to all contributors via their ORCID record,
- enhance the discoverability for your publications,
- utilize ORCID profile data to make reviewer selection easier.
ORCID data from authors and co-authors’ records can give you valuable context about who they are, and data from peer reviewers’ records can make the selection process easier, based on past experience and helping to identify and avoid potential conflicts of interest. It also enables you to give credit to reviewers and editors for the work they do.
Are you actively using ORCID in your editorial processes?
As an editor deeply embedded in the scholarly publishing processes and workflows, you are in a unique position to ensure that trustworthy information about your authors, co-authors, and peer reviewers is added to their ORCID records. By doing this, you improve their trustworthiness and actively contribute to the global community trust model espoused by ORCID, and relied on by hundreds of other research organizations, including research funders and institutions.
Many popular publishing platforms have ORCID integration built-in as part of our Certified Service Provider program, which means it meets ORCID’s requirements and best practices for sharing data throughout the publishing ecosystem. All you have to do is turn on the functionality to make your journal’s registration, submission, and publication processes easier!
If your manuscript submission system does not yet support ORCID functionality or your publisher is not an ORCID member, share our ORCID for Publishers resources with them and advocate for the value of ORCID in supporting your work!
Regardless of whether your publisher is an ORCID member, your journal can still benefit from ORCID as core infrastructure for elevating trust and integrity across the entire research ecosystem.
What can I do as an Editor?
Receive Credit For Your Service: Ensure you are appropriately credited for your hard work and contributions to the success of your journal. If your publisher is an ORCID member, you may be able to link your own authenticated ORCID iD to your publication system and add editorial service to your ORCID record. If your publisher is not yet a member or your manuscript submission system doesn’t support this feature, you may manually add an editorial service activity to your ORCID record.
Add ORCID To Your Publication Workflows: Ask your publisher and manuscript submission system about available ORCID member benefits and functionality. Once you investigate how to enable ORCID functionality in your manuscript submission system, you can leverage it to streamline workflows, enhance transparency, and ensure accurate attribution for your contributors. Adding data to ORCID records can highlight your journal as a reliable, trustworthy data source.
- For Co-Authors: Send ORCID authorization links to ensure each contributor can receive appropriate credit.
- For Peer Reviewers: Collect ORCID iDs from reviewers to use internally for facilitating review assignment and management, and update their ORCID records with peer review activities to raise visibility of their efforts and contributions across peer review models.
- For Corresponding Authors: Collect a corresponding author’s ORCID iD during submission to verify their identity & add this work to their ORCID record upon acceptance and publication, helping to keep all their publications in one reliable place.
- For Your Journal: Including authenticated ORCID information in your articles or your publication data helps disseminate research outputs and build visibility in your publication in the scholarly ecosystem.
Workflows and case studies
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Workflows
For more detailed information about how ORCID can be used in various workflows used by journal editors and publishers, explore the links below.
Case Studies
See how other journals are using ORCID
ORCID Integrations in Open Journal Systems and Open Preprint Systems
Scholarly Publishers and ORCID: Partnering to Advance Trust in Research
Building integrity-centric feedback loops between ORCID + Research Exchange