In real-world situations, API interactions are completed by your system using a programming language such as PHP, Java, or Ruby on Rails. For practice and testing, however, you can interact […]
Does ORCID support Schema.org, linked open data and JSON-LD?
The ORCID registry supports “content negotiation”. This means machines and other systems can ask ORCID registry for person metadata in different formats. One of these formats is JSON-LD, which uses […]
What are the API usage quotas and limits?
ORCID supports different API usage quota and rate limits depending on the API that you are using. API Anonymous API Public (registered) API Member API Rate Limit 12 req/sec40 burst/sec […]
Why Can’t I Read all Email Addresses?
Researcher control is a core ORCID principle so email addresses registered and added to the ORCID record are, by default, set as only visible to the record holder. Unverified emails […]
Sunsetting API Version 2
API 3.0 is the default API version and we recommend that when building new integrations that you use this version. We will continue to support API 2.0 and 2.1 for […]
Which manuscript submission systems have integrated with ORCID?
Please see the ORCID vendor-enabled systems page for publishers for the most up-to-date information
How do I get a ‘webhook’ access token?
Anyone premium member can obtain a ‘/webhook’ access token. A single token can be used to register webhooks for multiple records. To obtain a token, you make a call to […]
Do you have an API version policy?
Yes we do! You can read more about our API versioning, the rationale behind it and more, here at our API Version Policy.
What functionality is only available with API 3.0?
As we continue to develop our products, there are a number of features that are only available with API 3.0 which is our latest and default API version. The table […]
Email Domain
This section shows how many ORCID records are connected to your email domain(s) iDs with email domain(s): A metric counting the total number of iDs that have an email address […]