ORCID
Use an ORCID number as a unique identifier to distinguish yourself from every other researcher.
Benefits
- Uniquely identifies you, avoiding mistaken identity.
- Reliably connects to your research outputs, awards and organisational affiliations.
- Provides continuity across your research career - you own and control your ORCID ID, enabling it to move with you, across institutions and name changes.
- Saves you time, reduces repetitive data entry and facilitates automatic updates.
- Increases discoverability, providing a persistent online profile.
Create and connect your ORCID record
By creating an ORCID ID and connecting it with the NZ ORCID Hub, you can grant permission to the University to use the system to authoritatively assert your relationship and read/write information (e.g. employment and education) directly to your ORCID record. You still own and control your ORCID record, but enabling the University to be the source of the information can save time and increase trust.
Full instructions on creating and connecting your record are in the NZ ORCID Hub sign-up guide.
Maintain your ORCID record
Information that can be updated on your ORCID record includes:
For more information on building your ORCID record and connecting your ID, see the ORCID website.
Using your ORCID ID
Connect your research activities to you
When undertaking research administrative processes (e.g. submitting to a publisher or funding body), use ORCID IDs to identify yourself and your collaborators. This will connect you and your research activities, making your works more discoverable and boosting your research impact metrics.
Claim publications within Research Outputs
Adding your ORCID record to your profile in Te Waka Huia Rangahau | Research Outputs will allow automatic claiming of research outputs published using your ORCID ID. See: Automatic Claiming.
Display on your Discovery profile
Adding your ORCID record to your profile in Te Waka Huia Rangahau | Research Outputs will allow the display of your ORCID ID and a link to your ORCID record on your Discovery profile. See the Edit my Discovery Profile guide.
When citing or displaying your ORCID ID, use the full URL version, for example: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789
Link your ORCID ID to your Scopus author profile
Your ORCID ID can be integrated with your Scopus author profile to improve automatic author identification and data matching. See the Scopus guide on how to connect your Scopus ID and ORCID.
Link your ORCID iD to your Figshare
Your ORCID ID can be integrated with your Figshare account to improve automatic author identification and data matching. See the Figshare guide on how to connect your ORCID profile.
Find out about other researchers
ORCID records are open and accessible making them a useful registry to look up other researchers. Some search platforms (e.g. Google, Scopus, Web of Science) and online publications link to ORCID records from their author lists.