ORCID

The Open Researcherand Contributor ID or ORCID is a number with which it should be possible to uniquely identify individuals. This means that changes of name or institution are not associated with attribution problems for published work. Self-registration is required for an ORCID. Each person decides on the information released and recorded in the associated profile themselves. The creation of such an ID is completed within a few minutes. An additional advantage is that the ID can be used to log in to other open services, such as argos, the EU's DMP tool.

• Submitting publications
  Many publishers and funding bodies require you to provide your ORCID when submitting publications or applications. This is to ensure that you are clearly recognized as an author and that all your publications can be attributed to you.
   
• ORCID profile
  Regardless of your institutional affiliation and changes of position, you have the option of presenting your scientific profile on an independent page, specifying name variants and referring to other author profiles such as the ResearcherID from the Web of Science or the Scopus Author ID. You can adjust the visibility of each entry via a privacy setting.
   
• ORCID in literature and citation databases
  If you enter an ORCID in your publications and this is transferred to the bibliographic data of literature databases, all publications published by you will be found during a literature search and actually attributed to you. You also ensure that all publications recorded in the database are taken into account when calculating bibliometric indicators such as citation numbers or h-index.