It’s widely accepted that ORCID is the most widely adopted, de facto researcher identifier in use today. But what does that mean for other researcher identifiers out there? Ones that are heavily in use nationally, or within a particular discipline? How does ORCID fit in with them? Do they need ORCID, and vice versa?
The short answer is yes.
In this recent White Paper, MoreBrains outlines how ORCID helps strengthen the reach and context of national identifiers, ensure the persistence of disciplinary identifiers across other fields of study, and allow proprietary identifiers to benefit from open systems.
The white paper examines case studies demonstrating how ORCID works with different types of researcher identifiers, such as:
- National Researcher Identifiers: ORCID extends the coverage of national systems, such as Portugal’s CIÊNCIA ID enabling global collaboration and data sharing.
- Disciplinary Identifiers: ORCID supports disciplinary inclusion and partnerships by working with subject-based infrastructures like INSPIRE HEP for high-energy physics, allowing connections across fields and highlighting cross-disciplinary collaborations.
- Proprietary/Global Identifiers: ORCID underpins interoperability by working openly with proprietary services like Clarivate’s ResearcherID and Elsevier’s Scopus Author ID, adding value and enabling data exchange.
Learn more about how ORCID and these identifiers work together to ensure the interoperability and integrity of a globally connected research environment.
This paper was commissioned by ORCID. It was developed and written by Josh Brown and Alice Meadows of MoreBrains Cooperative, and the views expressed are theirs. The MoreBrains team is grateful to Tom Demeranville, Paloma Marin-Arraiza, Julie Petro, Chris Shillum, and Ivo Wijnbergen (all of ORCID) for providing some of the data used, and for sharing their feedback on the initial drafts of the paper.
