UWC Library Postgraduate Research Support

Overcome name confusion and claim all your research outputs

• Your name is probably not unique and you may find that your academic outputs get confused with those of someone with a similar name when they are listed in bibliographic databases such as Scopus, PubMed or Web of Science . This means that citations to your papers could get lost and you could be credited with citations from the wrong papers. By tying your publications and research outputs to your ORCID iD, they become more discoverable.
• You may have publications that use different variants of your name first name and initials that you want to make sure are identified as your output.
• You may also choose to change your name at some point in your career. Your ORCID identifier remains the same and so all your outputs can be amalgamated despite the change in name.
• By signing up for an ORCID identifier, you have one identifier that will belong only to you and that you can keep throughout your academic career, regardless of the institution at which you work.

Funder requirements

• Many grant funders are now insisting that applications include ORCID identifiers. Funders such as the UK Research Councils, the Wellcome Trust and the National Research Foundation are capturing ORCID iDs during the application process.

Publisher requirements

• Attributing authorship correctly is a major issue for publishers. Many publishers are now incorporating ORCID identifiers into their manuscript submission systems and peer reviewing processes. Using your ORCID identifier may speed up the manuscript process and your ORCID profile can be automatically updated by the publisher once your manuscript is accepted and then later published.

While it is free for researchers to create their individual ORCID iD record, institutional integration is needed to fully take advantage of the ORCID ecosystem. For UWC the benefits include:

• Access to the Premium Member ORCID API for connecting multiple enterprise systems with the ORCID registry. Integration of systems with the ORCID API allows UWC to:
  • Authenticate, connect, read, and update associated researchers’ ORCID iD records
  • Assert ownership of organization name(s) for consistent, trusted, and valid affiliations with researchers
  • Maintain connections with researchers across time, disciplines, and borders
  • Ease administrative burden with faster, automated information sharing via interoperability