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Distinguish Your Research with an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

Create a unique identifier for your publications to help with author name ambiguity

How to add your publications

Manually add publications to ORCID 

 

Add your Google Scholar papers to ORCID

 

Allow your ORCID profile to be automatically updated

Allow journals to add papers to your ORCID profile

It's recommended that you permit trusted organizations to add and update publications to your record on your behalf. Look for the green iD icon next time you submit a paper, book chapter, or book:

ORCID logo

When you grant permissions to a trusted organization, the organization you are connecting to will continuously update your record with publications. More about auto-updates.

Alternatively, the corresponding author can contact the publisher about adding an ORCID iD once the manuscript is accepted for publication. Often, one can do this via the publisher's online submission system, but the exact steps will vary publisher to publisher. As a coauthor, you may be invited to associate your ORCID iD to your manuscript via an automated e-mail from the journal publisher. 

Once your article has been indexed in PubMed, PubMed can't verify ownership and add ORCID iDs to citations after indexing. However, the publisher can add ORCID iDs to records and you can write to info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if the publisher needs help with the process.

Other ways to import publications

MyNCBI's My Bibliography

You can import citations from My Bibliography into citation software and then use the citation software to create a BibTeX file that can be imported into ORCID. Ask a Librarian if you need help with this.

MyNCBI’s SciENcv

eRA Commons and SciENcv instructions