Take time to register for an ORCID or Open Researcher and Contributor ID.  Publishers, funders, and institutions will all ask for your ORCID if they haven’t already.

Why researcher identifiers, and why ORCID?

There are over 40 researchers with the name “S. Smith” at the University of Tennessee alone.  A researcher’s name isn’t enough to reliably identify the author of an article published in a journal or a data set uploaded to a digital archive like TRACE at UTK.

Why ORCID? It is an open source, community driven solution to reliably connect researchers with their work.

ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID.

The ORCID initiative focuses on solving the name ambiguity problem by creating persistent unique identifiers and linking mechanisms between different ID schemes and research objects.

See these guides for more information on ORCID and ORCID research support at UT.

Distinguish yourself in 3 easy steps:

1. Register your unique ORCID identifier at orcid.org.

2. Add your information to ORCID and include your ORCID identifier on your webpage, when you submit publications, apply for grants, and in any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work.

3. Use your ORCID ID.  Enhance your ORCID record with your professional information and link to your other identifiers (such as Scopus or ResearcherID or LinkedIn).

ORCID supports many different research outputs:

When you publish information or data online, link these to your ORCID ID to receive credit for your work.  ORCID supports a wide range of work types beyond the traditional academic journal article.

ORCID at UTK: As of early December 2015, 701 ORCID registrants have @utk.edu email addresses.

ORCID is quickly becoming the community standard among researchers across all disciplines. Since ORCID began in 2012, over 1.7 million researchers have registered for over 9 million works. Click here to see more ORCID statistics.  UT researchers will easily recoup the time spent registering for an ORCID and adding their works to the ORCID record.

See this blog for directions for getting an ORCID and using SCOPUS Wizard to import your citations.

For more information please see Peter Fernandez (pfernand@utk.edu) 865-974-2886 or Ann Viera (annviera@utk.edu) 865-974-9015.