ORCID is a non-profit organisation which, among other things, provides researchers with an ORCID iD: a persistent and unique digital identifier.
Aarhus University encourages all researchers to have an ORCID iD, but it is not mandatory.
Read more at ORCID.org.
Use your ORCID iD in your auto signature, your Pure profile and your AU profile as well as for quick registration when submitting applications for funding.
This ensures that your research is discoverable and that you are recognised for it.
You can transfer data to your ORCID from other researcher IDs such as ResearcherID and Scopus Author Identifier.
ResearcherID is your author profile in the Web of Science database. When you add your ORCID to your ResearcherID, it becomes easier to identify your publications in Web of Science and for instance calculate your h-index.
Scopus Author Identifier or Scopus-ID is your author profile in the Scopus database. Scopus creates a profile in your name the first time you publish something in e.g. a Scopus-indexed journal.
The AU Pure team uses Scopus as an import source in Pure. This means that metadata for your (Scopus-indexed) publications is automatically imported into Pure by the team. However, this import will be more accurate if your ORCID is associated with your Scopus Author Identifier within Scopus. You can choose to log in, find your name in the database and request to have your ORCID added. Here you can also see whether your Scopus publication list is correct or needs to be corrected.
Your Scopus-ID and your Pure profile will have a higher probability of accuracy if you connect both with your ORCID, but it is voluntary to do so, as editing Scopus data requires a Scopus login.
A new Europe PMC tool has been developed to allow authors to select and export their articles to ORCID, creating or enhancing their bibliographies. The tool follows a simple three-step process to select publications, review and then export them to ORCID. Read more about transferring data from Europe PubMed Central.
