Benefits of ORCID to the researcher

For the researcher, establishing an ORCID ID has the following benefits:

• Allows researchers to distinguish their research activities from others with similar names and affiliations
• Enables researchers to easily and uniquely associate a researcher’s identity to a wide range of research activities and objects such as publications, datasets, equipment, articles, media stories, curated exhibits, citations, experiments, patents, teaching notes and notebooks
• Empowers researchers to self‐manage their personal privacy whilst preserving the ability for their body of work to be publicly available.
• Reduces manual data entry through automatic harvesting of associated activities and objects
• Makes the research process and collaboration across borders, institutions and disciplines easier because it removes the need to enter data over and over again. The data associated with a researcher can “move” with their identifier across organizations and national boundaries
• Facilitates researcher interaction with multiple organizations, publishers, funders through a common identifier
• Provides records for individual scholars, improving discoverability of researchers and their associated research activities and objects