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

• 2021 From Vision to Value: ORCID's 2022–2025 Strategic Plan
• 2020 ORCID's 2025 Vision

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.

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

https://orcid.org/$1

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.

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