ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique, persistent identifier (an ORCID iD) that researchers can use to distinguish themselves, and their research. ORCID also provides a research profile that links a researcher's research outputs and activities to their ORCID iD.
ORCID is integrated into many systems used by publishers, funders, institutions, and other research-related services.
Your ORCID iD is always publicly visible.
You can control the visibility settings for all other content in your ORCID record.
There are three visibility settings: everyone, trusted parties, or only me.
Everyone: Information marked as everyone can be viewed by anyone who comes to the orcid.org website or consumed by anyone using the ORCID public API. This information is also included in the public data file posted annually by ORCID.
Trusted parties: Limited-access information that can be seen by any trusted parties whom you have granted access to your ORCID record. These connections require explicit action on your part.
Only me: Private information can only be seen by you and trusted individuals you have granted access to help administer your ORCID record on your behalf. It is also used by ORCID algorithms to help distinguish your identity from another person who may have a similar name, be in a similar field, or may be confused with you for other reasons. This information is not shared with others.
The default visibility setting of your name when you register is everyone. The default visibility setting of your email address(es) is only me. You can immediately update the visibility of these items after registration by changing the visibility selector next to them.
You can set the default visibility setting for any new data added to your ORCID record after you register.
Source: https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006897614-Visibility-settings
Your ORCID iD:
It is also a requirement of many online submission systems for journal manuscripts and grant applications.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) is the Portuguese national funding agency for science and research and is concerned with funding research projects, advanced training, scientific employment, R&D institutions, research infrastructures, and the transfer of scientific knowledge.
For over a decade, FCT’s commitment to open science has led to a seamless and interconnected research ecosystem where authors, funding, projects, and scientific outputs are all interconnected, contributing to the global availability of high volumes of trusted metadata about funded research.
As a publicly-funded government agency under the responsibility of the Ministry for Science, Technology, and Higher Education, FCT sought the development of a robust program for managing the flow of scientific research outputs, which gave way to the creation of an integrated information ecosystem designed to elevate national scientific activity—PTCRIS.
To develop the PTCRIS ecosystem, FCT pursued two primary objectives. The first was to establish a regulatory framework and infrastructure based on researchers, organizations, outputs, projects, and funding. The second was to promote adoption of the framework to ensure interoperability and the flow of information between systems.
With both of these objectives in place, FCT had a solid foundation from which to build a healthy, functional, interconnected national PID (persistent identifier) program while continuing to add value through additional services such as indicator and analytics tools to monitor and measure open science.
Today, because of its investment in PTCRIS, FCT has made gains toward realizing its vision of establishing Portugal as a global reference for research and innovation while ensuring knowledge generated by scientific research underpins social and economic development.
As an early adopter of ORCID in 2013, FCT became a member in order to both reduce the administrative burden of scientific researchers and to receive reliable and accessible national scientific data. FCT even found that as a result of using ORCID, Portuguese researchers are saving approximately 154 hours per year.
The rise of ORCID adoption by researchers within Portugal has contributed to the visibility and traceability of scientific activities. Researchers are encouraged and educated about the importance of their unique ORCID metadata to the national research ecosystem. In turn, ORCID has helped propel Portugal’s Research & Development by ensuring that more of Portugal’s scientific research can be both validated and discovered.
In fact, FCT reports that between 2020 and 2024, the percentage of Portuguese researchers with ORCID iDs rose to around 80%, which ranks among the highest ORCID adoption rate for countries that have established communities of practice. FCT’s approach also impacts the completeness of the records, being that Portugal is one of the countries with the highest percentage of completeness according to Dimensions and Crossref data.
ORCID was selected after a formal evaluation process based on technical reliability, metadata completeness, API coverage, and ease of integration. Notably, ORCID already supported key integrations with Crossref, Scopus, and DataCite, which allowed PTCRIS to bootstrap an effective interoperability strategy with minimal custom infrastructure investment.
However, getting this level of ORCID adoption was not achieved by FCT requiring ORCID iDs for Portuguese researchers, but rather by implementing ORCID at a national level and further promoting ORCID as a means for researchers to save significant hours on administrative tasks necessary for grant applications.
The high ORCID adoption rate among researchers in Portugal has had the corollary effect of ensuring that high-quality metadata can flow between systems. For example, CIÊNCIAVITAE, Portugal’s scientific curriculum platform, automatically syncs with ORCID to populate high-quality funding metadata to researchers’ ORCID records, with their permission, of course.
None of this would have been possible without the foundational framework of the PTCRIS program. What makes PTCRIS exemplary is not only its technical robustness, but its grounding in formal software engineering practices. The synchronization framework was verified using formal specification languages, ensuring stability, correctness, and scalability before its national rollout. This foresight underpins the framework’s success and FCT’s strategic leadership in PID infrastructure.
To learn more about FCT and Portugal’s National PID strategy, catch the replay of ORCID in the Wild featuring Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia or download the presentation. If you are ready to integrate your system(s) with ORCID, reach out to our team.
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Under ORCID’s new Regional Consortia program, launched in June 2023 with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Regional Consortium led by Consortia in Colombia, organizations from multiple countries are now able to join ORCID under one regional umbrella.
After eight years since the first consortium formed in 2015, the Regional Consortia program was established to enable adoption of ORCID in regions where there may be insufficient capacity or too few organizations to support a national consortium.
The need for enhancing the Consortia Program was first and foremost evident in the Latin American community, and the positive impact on global participation was quickly observed. Enabling and working with Communities of Practice has always been central to ORCID activities around consortia. The Regional Consortia program builds on top of that to support ORCID adoption around the world to robust research infrastructure and uphold research integrity, particularly in areas that have been underrepresented so far.
“Thanks to local experience, not only adopting ORCID but also integrating it into digital ecosystems, we saw that this initiative could transform an entire region (Latin America and the Caribbean),” said Paula Saavedra, Project Director at Consortia S.A.S. “It wasn’t simply about encouraging the use of a technological platform and interconnecting it; we also had in mind building bridges between institutions and breaking down barriers that had traditionally kept our academic communities isolated.”
The LAC Regional Consortium is led by Consortia, a Colombian twelve-year-old organization with a main objective of improving access to information and high-quality digital scientific tools for university libraries, students, researchers, and other contributors in Latin America. ORCID and Consortia started a strong collaboration in 2021, when the second became the Colombian consortium lead organization. At the time, they covered 61 organizations at a national level. Currently, the consortium has grown to 96 member institutions represented in eight countries (Colombia, Perú, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Mexico, Ecuador, and Bolivia).
ORCID-LAC‘s main objective is the adoption, integration, and implementation of ORCID as a standard for normalizing information on Latin American and Caribbean authors in the scientific field, thus providing a series of benefits for researchers and institutions that are part of the Consortium. Consortia promotes the adoption of ORCID to ensure the correct identification and attribution of researchers’ contributions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Adopting these standards not only facilitates interoperability and information exchange between institutions, but also strengthens the digital presence and academic recognition of researchers by creating a regional community of practice.
Apart from becoming the first regional consortium lead, Consortia has accomplished several milestones in the past two years. They’ve consolidated a strong community of practice in the LAC region and accelerated ORCID adoption.
They’ve grown the number of integrations to 133 , built mainly in Open Journal System (OJS), for manuscript submission systems, and DSpace, for repository systems.
Another great milestone was their website update. This development was a significant step towards their goal of providing accessible resources and tools for both researchers and institutions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. One of the most notable features of the new website is the interactive map that shows the 96 institutions that are currently part of the ORCID–LAC Consortium. This map allows a clear and dynamic visualization of the presence and reach of ORCID in the region, facilitating the identification and connection with the participating institutions.
Saavedra envisions the ORCID-LAC Regional Consortium as a “fully interconnected regional ecosystem, where Latin American scientific production flows unhindered between institutions, countries, and continents.”
She highlights that LAC’s next steps include:
Saavedra said that data normalization may sound like a technical issue, but it represents the democratization of academic recognition and the building of digital bridges that transcend borders. “ORCID-LAC is more than a consortium; it is our Latin American contribution to building a more connected, visible, and equitable science,” she said.
Interested in forming a regional consortia?
Regional Consortium must meet the following conditions:
Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean that would like to be a part of LAC are invited to join Consortia to, according to Saavedra, “transform the way academic digital identity is managed and, of course, support the visibility and impact of Latin American science worldwide.”
ORCID believes in breaking down barriers to open infrastructure, and our Regional Consortia approach is designed to do exactly that. If your region meets the minimum criteria for starting a regional consortia, we invite you to contact us.
Paula leads the loyalty processes with consortium members and is also responsible for technology project management and the management and administration of the ORCID-LAC Consortium. Her main focus is promoting the integration and use of the consortium’s memberships and platforms. This year, she is also participating as Co-Chair to assist with proposals for virtual Consortia Interest Group (CIG) meetings and activities arising from CIG discussions. At Consortia, she supports consortium member institutions in strengthening their research capabilities, accessing high-quality resources, and using persistent identifiers.
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I’m pleased to announce that nominations for ORCID’s Board of Directors are now open. As a community-built organization, ORCID is governed by a Board that is representative of its membership and wider community stakeholders. The ORCID Board fulfills an important role in the organization’s governance by providing strategic guidance and oversight for the successful achievement of ORCID’s mission. Our Board members are elected for three-year terms on a staggered schedule, so every year, we hold elections to appoint new members to the Board. More information is available in the ORCID Board Charter.
This is your opportunity to participate in ORCID’s governance and represent your organization on ORCID’s Board.
The ORCID Board nominations process gives ORCID member organizations a direct voice in the ORCID’s direction and priorities. Our annual elections are an important part of ORCID’s commitment to open and transparent stakeholder governance, and the election process ensures that ORCID grows and develops in close partnership with its member organizations.
All ORCID member organizations are eligible to nominate a representative to stand for election to serve as a Member-Director on the Board.
This year, we are looking to fill up to four Member-Director board seats. To apply to be a Member-Director, you must be affiliated with an ORCID member organization.
Each year, our Board establishes criteria for the selection of new Board members in order to maintain the balance of skills necessary to govern the organization, and to ensure diverse representation from ORCID’s stakeholder communities. This year, in seeking perspectives and skills complementary to those of continuing Board members, the Nominating Committee will be specifically looking for candidates who meet two or more of the following:
Supported by the Executive Director and a full-time professional staff, the ORCID Board is responsible for:
More information about the Board’s role and responsibilities can be found in the Board Charter.
If elected, new Board members will serve for a period of three years, starting in February 2026. Board Directors are expected to attend all Board meetings—currently there are four meetings a year, two virtual, and two in person—and to play an active role in ORCID activities during the course of their term, including serving on one or two Board committees.
All meetings are conducted in English and applicants must be fluent in English.
In-person Board meetings typically last two days and take place in March and September. The meetings are hosted by member organizations in different regions across the globe. Board members are expected to travel to attend in-person board meetings. To help achieve our goal of broad representation across sectors and regions, a Board Meeting Attendance Fund is available to reduce financial barriers to participation in Board meetings for those Directors whose organizations are unable to support their travel costs.
Virtual Board meetings take place in May and November and are four hours each. Virtual Board meetings are split across two days to best accommodate the wide range of time zones on our global Board. This means meetings may take place outside of your standard working hours.
In addition to attending Board meetings, Board members are expected to serve on one or two Board committees each year. With the exception of the Executive Committee, Board committees generally meet virtually four times a year. Meetings tend to be one hour and may be held outside of your normal working hours due to the time zone constraints of other committee members. More information around committee roles and responsibilities can be found in the committee charters listed on our governance page.
Board members are responsible for reviewing meeting materials and making substantive contributions to the work of the Board and its committees.
As this year’s Chair of the Nominating Committee, I look forward to working closely with the other Committee members on this process:
The role of the Nominating Committee is to:
Annual reports and other governance information is available on our Governance web page.
We will consider all nominations received by 27 June, 2025. The slate will be presented to the current Board for approval at its September meeting, after which it will be announced publicly. Our voting members then have the choice of either voting for the slate or proposing additional candidates (within 30 days of the slate being announced), in which case the election will become a plurality vote by candidate. To propose additional candidates, a group of 20 or more member organizations must submit a nomination in writing to ORCID before 31 October, 2025. Note that the group may not include more than one member per consortium (for specific details, see Article III, Section 2b of ORCID’s Bylaws). We will send notifications and open the election by electronic ballot on 3 November, 2025.
| Date | Activity |
| 22 May | Call for Board nominations |
| 27 June | Closing date for Board nominations |
| July – August | Nominating Committee to review nominations |
| 17-18 September | Nominating Committee presents slate for Board approval |
| 1 October | Slate made public |
| 31 October | Closing date for alternative nominations |
| 3 November | Voting opens |
| 20 November | Voting closes, results announced at virtual members’ meeting |
| March 2026 | Elected members start their term at the first Board meeting of the year. (Tentatively March; Exact date to be confirmed) |
Please nominate yourself, encourage a colleague to apply, or nominate another individual (with their permission), using our nomination form:
As a reminder, to be eligible to serve as a Member-Director on the Board, you must be an employee, officer or director of a current ORCID member organization. You can find the full list of ORCID member organizations here.
As an organization, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We strive to have a Board that reflects our diverse community and we encourage individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply to serve on the Board.
We look forward to receiving your nominations over the coming months.
If you are thinking about nominating yourself but aren’t sure or have questions, please get in touch at nominations@orcid.org. Remember, the deadline for nominations is 27 June, 2025.
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I am excited to share two exciting opportunities for researchers to become involved in ORCID’s governance: serving as a Researcher-Director on ORCID’s Board of Directors and serving on the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council.
ORCID is governed by a Board of Directors that is representative of its membership and wider community of stakeholders. The ORCID Board is responsible for ensuring the organization is acting in the best interests of ORCID’s community by providing strategic guidance and oversight for the successful achievement of ORCID’s mission.
ORCID Board members are elected for three-year terms on a staggered schedule, so every year, we hold elections to appoint new Directors. Two Researcher-Director Board seats are reserved for practicing scholars, irrespective of their ORCID member affiliation. This year, we are looking to fill one Researcher-Director Board seat.
Supported by the Executive Director and a full-time professional staff, the ORCID Board is responsible for:
Researcher-Directors also serve as co-chairs of the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council, and serve as a link between the Council and the Board.
If elected, new Board members will serve for a period of three years, starting in March 2026. Note that ORCID Board members serve as uncompensated volunteers. All Board meetings are conducted in English and applicants must be fluent in English.
For more information about the role of ORCID Board members, please see the Board Charter. Our annual reports and other governance information are also available on our website.
Each year, our Board establishes criteria for the selection of new Board members in order to maintain the balance of skills necessary to govern the organization, and to ensure diverse representation from ORCID’s stakeholder communities. This year, in seeking perspectives and skills complementary to those of continuing Board members, the Nominating Committee will give preference to researcher representative candidates who display two or more of the following characteristics:
Board Directors are expected to attend all Board meetings—currently there are four meetings a year, two virtual, and two in person—and to play an active role in ORCID activities during the course of their term, including serving on one or two Board committees.
In-person Board meetings typically last two days and take place in March and September. The meetings are hosted by member organizations in different regions across the globe. Board members are expected to travel to attend in-person board meetings. ORCID covers the travel costs for the Researcher-Directors to attend in-person Board meetings.
Virtual Board meetings take place in May and November and are four hours each. Virtual Board meetings are split across two days to best accommodate the wide range of time zones on our global Board. This means meetings may take place outside of your standard working hours.
In addition to attending Board meetings, Board members are expected to serve on one or two Board committees each year. With the exception of the Executive Committee, Board committees generally meet virtually four times a year. Meetings tend to be one hour and may be held outside of your normal working hours due to the time zone constraints of other committee members. More information around committee roles and responsibilities can be found in the committee charters listed on our governance page.
Board members are responsible for reviewing meeting materials and making substantive contributions to the work of the Board and its committees.
Although the ORCID Board has long had two seats reserved for Researcher-Directors, the Board focuses on organizational governance and cannot represent the full breadth of the researcher community. To ensure that we keep researchers at the center of everything we do at ORCID, the Board created the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council (ORAC) in 2021. ORAC is a diverse group of researchers who provide valuable perspective and advice to ORCID staff and the ORCID Board as we seek to ensure that ORCID provides value and utility to researchers and aids in the process of research and innovation.
Council members meet virtually twice a year. These meetings are generally an hour long; due to the wide distribution of timezones may take place outside of your standard working hours. In between meetings, Council members are invited to participate in an online forum to discuss and consult on topics as they arise. Council members serve for a two-year term.
All meetings are conducted in English and applicants must be fluent in English.
We will consider all nominations received by 27 June, 2025. The slate will be presented to the current Board for approval at its September meeting, after which it will be announced publicly. Our voting members then have the choice of either voting for the slate or proposing additional candidates (within 30 days of the slate being announced), in which case the election will become a plurality vote by candidate. To propose additional candidates, a group of 20 or more member organizations must submit a nomination in writing to ORCID before 31 October, 2025. Note that the group may not include more than one member per consortium (for specific details, see Article III, Section 2b of ORCID’s Bylaws). We will send notifications and open the election by electronic ballot on 3 November, 2025.
Date | Activity |
22 May | Call for Board nominations |
27 June | Closing date for Board nominations |
July – August | Nominating Committee to review nominations |
17-18 September | Nominating Committee presents slate for Board approval |
1 October | Slate made public |
31 October | Closing date for alternative nominations |
3 November | Voting opens |
20 November | Voting closes, results announced at virtual members’ meeting |
March 2026 | Elected members start their term at the first Board meeting of the year. (Tentatively March; Exact date to be confirmed) |
If you are interested in serving on the Board and/or ORAC, you may nominate yourself or a colleague (with their permission) by completing our nomination form.
Nominations must be received by 27 June.
All applications received for Board seats will be reviewed by the ORCID Nominating Committee, which is responsible for developing the Board election slate based on the nominations received, taking into account this year’s selection criteria as indicated above, and maintaining a majority of representatives of non-profit organizations on the Board as required by ORCID’s bylaws. Please note that the Nominating Committee may follow up with you after you submit your application to schedule an interview, complete a board skills survey, or ask follow-up questions.
Applications for ORAC will be considered by ORCID staff and successful candidates will be invited to join ORAC by the Executive Director once the Nominating Committee has completed its work for the year.
If you are unable to complete this online form, please send your responses to nominations@orcid.org.
As an organization, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We strive to have a Board and Council that reflect our diverse community, and we encourage individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply to serve.
If you have specific questions about Board service, ORAC, or the nominations process, you can email us at nominations@orcid.org
We look forward to receiving your nominations over the coming months.
If you are thinking about nominating yourself but aren’t sure or have questions, please get in touch at nominations@orcid.org. Remember, the deadline for nominations is 27 June, 2025.
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Bethesda, MD, USA (May 12, 2025)— JST and ORCID are pleased to announce they have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, agreeing to coordinate efforts to promote the adoption of ORCID and other Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) through the research data lifecycle in Japan and adopt administrative best practices.
The organizations will engage together on a variety of initiatives and activities aimed at building awareness of and encouraging Japanese researchers to actively engage with both JST and ORCID services. They will work collaboratively toward integrating ORCID into JST Services, such as researchmap where possible and desired, to the benefit of the Japanese researcher community, and will build awareness of PIDs as a critical part of research infrastructure and policy.
Hiroyuki Kaneko, Vice President, JST said:
“We expect that the signing of the MOC between JST and ORCID, a world-leading registry promoting persistent identifiers (PIDs) for researchers, will give significant momentum to the adoption of PIDs. We hope that this collaboration will support better coordination between ORCID’s services and JST’s information platforms and improve the global visibility of Japanese researchers through ORCID’s international network. Ultimately, we believe this initiative will contribute to the international circulation of talented researchers.”
Chris Shillum, Executive Director, ORCID said:
“ORCID is pleased to build on our long history of engagement with Japanese researchers and universities by collaborating with JST to benefit Japan’s research community. We are particularly excited by the aim to integrate critical Japanese research information systems such as researchmap with ORCID’s global infrastructure, bringing increased visibility to Japanese researchers internationally, and allowing research administrators in Japan to better understand the scope of international collaborations. We are honored that JST is the first high-level governmental funding agency in Asia that has agreed to collaborate with us in this way, and we look forward to working together to promote the use of PIDs in Japan and more broadly across the world.”
About JST–JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) is a national research and development Agency that plays a central role in the Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan and aims to promote science and technology. In order to promote science and technology and provide solutions to social issues, JST comprehensively implements diverse projects in collaboration with universities, research institutions, and industries in Japan and overseas, and makes contributions to the sustainable development of society and the creation of science, technology, and innovation. Learn more at https://www.jst.go.jp
About ORCID–ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research and innovation, from imagining to building and managing, are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time. ORCID seeks to reduce administrative burden for researchers and help organizations understand the impact of the research they are facilitating or funding by providing an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research and innovation activities, as well as the tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. Learn more at https://orcid.org.
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