ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent identifier for researchers.
ORCiD aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communication by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCiD and other current researcher ID schemes.
It's free to register and lets you link all your research publications and other output to your identifier, to help maximise the impact of your research.
Since many major publishers and other information producers are integrating ORCiD identifiers into their products and tools, having an ORCiD identifier may help simplify processes like journal article manuscript submission.
Some funding organizations, such as Horizon 2020 and the Wellcome Trust are using ORCiD identifiers to manage granting information.
The video below explains how ORCiD works:
What is ORCID? from ORCID on Vimeo.
