ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers. ORCID records hold non-sensitive information such as name, email, organization name, and research activities.

Prefix
orcid
Alternative Prefixes
ORCiD ORCID
Keywords
person subject agnostic
Links
Homepage Repository @ORCID_Org@scicomm.xyz
Contact
Will Simpson   0000-0003-4654-1403   wjrsimpson
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Open Researcher and Contributor should match this regular expression:
^\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{3}(\d|X)$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000-0003-4423-4370   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Open Researcher and Contributor should match this regular expression:
^orcid:\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{3}(\d|X)$

Example CURIE
orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370
Publications
Metaregistry Open Researcher and Contributor

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 2021
BioContext biocontext ORCID
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink ORCID
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.nx58jg
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go orcid
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam orcid
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t orcid
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P496
RDF Information

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

https://orcid.org/$1

Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000-0003-4423-4370 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Open Researcher and Contributor. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Open Researcher and Contributor orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-4370
Open Researcher and Contributor (RDF) rdf https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-4370
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/orcid:0000-0003-4423-4370
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
scholia Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/orcid/0000-0003-4423-4370