ORCID Public Data File on Google Big Query

Since the launch of the ORCID Registry in October 2012, ORCID has published our Public Data File annually to ensure that any interested stakeholder has access to a dataset that has become a vital part of the scholarly communication infrastructure. 

While the data is rich in value for scientometric analysis, the dataset’s size and format have posed accessibility challenges for non-technical users, including researchers, policy makers, and infrastructure developers. 

To lower these barriers, ORCID has partnered with Digital Science to host the 2023, 2024, and 2025 Public Data Files on Google Big-Query. This collaboration aims to make ORCID’s open data even more accessible and usable to it can encourage cross-platform research, and enable FAIR-aligned scientometric analysis.

What can you discover on Google BigQuery?

For the first time, the ORCID Public Data file is accessible for exploratory data analysis. Some questions that might be explored include:

• The most common words used in biographies
• Most frequent keywords across ORCID records
• Number of ORCID iDs created each year
• Most common domains in researcher URLs

We are interested in hearing about what you have discovered in your analysis of the ORCID Annual Public Data file, so please share your findings with us!

Download the ORCID Google Big Query Infosheet