You may have heard the term ORCID identifier mentioned in the context of publishing your research. When you sign up for an ORCID iD, you will be assigned a unique code of letters and numbers, similar to a DOI. This makes it simple for a search engine to distinguish between the thousands of Smiths or Wangs in a database. An ORCID iD will be a relief to those of you with popular names or for those whose name has changed (or might change) throughout the course of your research career. An ORCID iD eliminates the issues of multiple name spellings or misspellings and also cultural variations such as a family name preceding a given name. Its ultimate goal is to attribute scholarship accurately.
It's free to sign up for an ORCID iD and you can choose which level of privacy you prefer. ORCID itself will manage this open and transparent registry of researchers. ORCID is compatible with other persistent identifiers such as ResearcherID, and the registry itself is an independent, non-proft organisation. If your work is already registered by Web of Science or Scopus you may even have already been assigned a ResearcherID. It's easy to link the standards together.
You may not yet need an ORCID iD but will find that it becomes a useful tool for organising your contributions to YSJ's research repository, or for a new job (your ORCID will stay the same even if your email address and institutional affiliation change).
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