Welcome to Day 2 of the 2024 Research Impact Challenge!

Day 2: Register Your ORCID iD

What is an ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier) is an international, interdisciplinary, open, non-proprietary, and not-for-profit institution. ORCID enables transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations by providing an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities

• A persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers and ensures your research outputs and activities are correctly attributed to you.
• Your ORCID iD is yours throughout your career, no matter where you work, who funds you, whether your name or field of research changes, or if your names appears in different forms in different places.
• You control your ORCID iD. You control when and where you use your iD. You manage connections to your iD, including deciding who gets to add what information, and whether and by whom this data may be viewed and accessed.

Benefits of Using ORCID

• Your ORCID iD distinguishes you from all other researchers, especially those with a similar or the same name.
• ORCID saves time by reducing repetitive data entry. You can link your ORCID account with trusted parties. Once linked, these systems can push information back and forth – saving you time from re-entering citation information.
• ORCID is more universal than other researcher profile systems (such as Google Scholar, Scopus Author Identifier, or ResearcherID from Clarivate).
• More and more publishers are providing options to link authors’ and reviewers’ ORCID iDs in their manuscript submission systems. Some publishers are starting to mandate use of ORCID iDs for authors. (ORCID maintains a list of publishers that require an ORCID iD.)
• Funders are starting to adopt ORCID in their funding application process. This includes the National Institutes of Health.
  • ORCID maintains a list of funders that have policies relating to the use of ORCID iDs

ORCID and Publication Linking

You can use your ORCID record to quickly populate your SciENcv Biosketch. The National Science Foundation (NSF) requires applications include Biosketches for key personnel created using the SciENcv online platform. The NIH suggests that funding application Biosketches be created using SciENcv.

Not only can you link your publications with your ORCiD, but you can also link your conference presentations, datasets, and more. 

Steps to Create an ORCID iD

Go to ORCID @ UA, create a new ORCID iD and connect it to The University of Arizona. If you already have a ORCID iD, you can connect your iD to UA. Once you have connected your ORCID iD to UA, you can sign into ORCID using either your personal account/password or through your UA NetID and password.

ORCID Profile Setup

Once you register for an ORCiD, you can complete your profile to help establish your visibility as a researcher. On your profile, you will enter your contact information, information about your employment and education and qualifications, your professional accomplishments and organizations, and your publications. You can also add keywords to your profile for easier discoverability. 

Congratulations on completing Day 2 of the 2024 Research Impact Challenge!

Come back tomorrow to complete Day 3!