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ORCID

Open Researcher and Contributor ID

Tips for using your ORCID iD

Your ORCID iD and record:

  • distinguishes you from other researchers with the same name or a similar name;
  • ensures your research outputs and activities are correctly attributed to you;
  • reliably and easily links you with your contributions and affiliations;
  • improves discoverability of your work and makes it easier to track your work;
  • is a requirement of many journal manuscript systems and grant application forms;
  • is persistent and will stay with you throughout your career. 

Tips for using your ORCID iD and record: 

  • Use your ORCID iD if prompted during manuscript submission and grant proposals and submission. 
  • Link your ORCID iD to (or include it in your profile for) other services, including ResearcherID, figshare, and your professional organizations.
  • Include your ORCID iD on conference posters (generate a QR code, if you like, right from your ORCID record page), to direct people to your works.
  • Consider including your ORCID iD on your webpage, in social media accounts, and in your email signature.

NIH and NSF Biosketch using sciENcv and ORCID

SciENcv is a tool managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that allows researchers to create a biographical sketch (biosketch) to submit with their grant proposals for funding from NIH. It can also be used when seeking funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

For all proposals submitted on or after October 23, 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will require researchers to use the NIH's SciENcv tool to create biosketches (information on this mandate can be found in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (23-1) in chapter 2, section h(i)). The NIH has a section in the SciENcv help guide that has NSF-specific instructions and screen shots.

Investigators submitting NSF proposals are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their biosketches. SciENcv is integrated with ORCID. Researchers can connect their ORCID iD with their SciENcv profile in order to transfer data from their ORCID record into SciENcv by clicking a button, rather than having to manually retype all of their information.

Data that can be transferred from ORCID to SciENcv for NSF Biosketches includes:

Education = “professional preparation”
Employment = “Appointments”
Works = “Products”
Biography and Keywords = “Synergistic Activities”
Note: NSF is not currently importing funding information from ORCID to the SciENcv Biosketch, but researchers will be asked to fill out a separate “current and pending” grant awards document.

For NIH Biosketches, data that can be transferred from ORCID to SciENcv includes:

Biography = “Personal Statement”
Employment = “Positions and Honors”
Education = “Education/Training”
Works = “Personal Statement – Citations”

SciENcv asks researchers to enter information about their professional preparation, appointments, etc., as it relates to the grant they are applying for, and then it automatically creates a biographical sketch that meets the requirements of both NIH and NSF. Full NSF guidance is available in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and on the NSF Policy Office website.

Any data imported from ORCID into SciENcv becomes static and editable by the investigator within the SciENcv platform, from which a PDF can be generated for proposal submission. If applying for several grants, researchers can create multiple, different biographical sketches, all using ORCID to streamline the data reporting process. 

More information on SciENcv and ORCID to streamline NIH and NSF Grant Applications.

NIH, AHRQ, and CDC require individuals to have ORCID IDs

Connect your ORCID iD and eRA Commons account

Effective October 2019, the requirement for ORCID identifiers is incorporated into the appointment process for trainees, scholars, and participants supported by institutional research training, career development, and research education awards that require appointments through the xTrain system, including the following:    

     T03, T15, T32, T34, T35, T37, T42, T90/R90, TL1, TL4, TU2, K12/KL2, R25, R38, RL5, RL9

At the time of appointment, the xTrain system will check whether appointees have ORCID iDs and appointments will be not be accepted for agency review unless an ORCID iD is linked to the individual's eRA Commons Personal Profile.   

Beginning with receipt dates on or after January 25, 2020, the requirement for ORCID identifiers will be enforced at the time of application for individual fellowship and career development awards, including the following: 

     F05, F30, F31, F32, F33, F37, F38, F99/K00, FI2, K01, K02, K05, K07, K08, K18, K22, K23, K24, K25, K26, K38, K43, K76, K99/R00

Linking an ORCID iD and eRA profile is something that each individual student or researcher must do. See instructions from the eRA Commons website on how to link your ORCID iD and your eRA Commons Profile.

See information on Requirement for ORCID iDs for Individuals Supported by Research Training, Fellowship, Research Education, and Career Development Awards Beginning in FY 2020.

Other groups using ORCID

Publishing groups, professional associations, and funding agencies can integrate with ORCID to authenticate ORCID iDs for authors and reviewers, display iDs in their data systems and webpages, connect to author works, collect information from researchers’ ORCID records and pre-populate their accounts in submission systems to streamline and standardize workflows, and synchronize systems with ORCID to save researchers time and improve information flow with the other systems and platforms they use. 

Within ORCID, it is possible to search a full list of member organizations and set filters for organization type and country:

Publishing Groups using ORCID: 

Professional Associations using ORCID:

Funding Agencies using ORCID:

More information about ORCID