Metadata

An ORCID record may contain information about a researcher’s work, affiliations, funding, peer review, and more. Items on ORCID records can be broken down into assertions that connect the ORCID iD-holder with […]

Works in ORCID are grouped together based on both their identifiers and those identifiers‚ relationship to the work. There are four types of relationships: Our API provides support for this […]

Please see our list of supported identifiers for the V3.0 API. We occasionally add new types at the request of ORCID members who would like to use them when adding […]

ORCID supports the use of  ROR identifiers, GRID identifiers and Crossref Funder Registry identifiers to disambiguate organizations in ORCID records.  For more information, see Working with Organization Identifiers Although Ringgold identifiers still exist […]

We’ve introduced a new system-generated field, which expresses external identifiers (DOIs, PMCID, PMID, ArXiv, Bibcode, ISSNs, and ISBNs) in a normalized format for the purposes of matching and grouping. Normalization […]

The contributor field in works and funding allows member integrations to list the researchers who have collaborated on a work or are party to a funded project. For both funding […]

ORCID provides a free text citation field so that information can easily be entered in text format by researchers. However, we strongly encourage all API users to add citations in […]

Any author where their publisher uses Crossref for their DOI registration can benefit from the Crossref auto update integration. Publishers need to include the authenticated ORCID iDs for their authors […]

Each item in the ORCID iD is assigned a put code which uniquely identifies it. When reading an entire record or section, the put code can be found as an […]

As a benefit of ORCID membership, organizations can ask ORCID to support additional PID types in the ORCID Registry.  For example, a member could request that we add support for […]