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

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000-0002-5355-2576   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

orcid:0000-0002-5355-2576

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for orcid.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE orcid:0000-0002-5355-2576 is used to demonstrate the provides available for orcid. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.