Guides @ LU: ORCID: Benefits of ORCID

How ORCID iD benefits you?

	Author Names Disambiguation
	ORCID iD helps to distinguish your works from other researchers with same or similar names. It is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors and national boundaries.
	Improve Discoverability
	ORCID is indexed by Google Scholar and linked in key databases like Web of Science and Scopus. Your research outputs will gain extra discoverability.
	Connect Your Work
	ORCID iD is now widely embedded in key workflows such as research profile maintenance, manuscript submissions, or grant applications, etc.
	Stay with you throughout your Career
	ORCID iD is unique and persistent. It connects your works throughout your scholarly career, regardless of job change or name variance appears in different publications.

What is name ambiguity?

Name ambiguity is a problem that occurs when a set of scholarly works contains ambiguous author names, making author names not reliably and distinctive to associate with their works.

Ambiguous author names appear when:

The same author appears under distinct names
More than one author having the same name
Similar spelling of distinct names
Incorrect name order
Use or misuse of middle initial
Different version of names used throughout career
(name change, maiden & married name, etc.)
Different journals formatting names differently

Name ambiguity

To solve the name ambiguity problem, ORCID offers unique author identifiers to distinguish researchers from others and helps keep researchers’ names connected to all of their publications.

Who is using ORCID iD?

Publishers and Presses:	Universities and Research Institutions:	Funders:
Oxford University Press Springer Taylor & Francis Wiley ... and many others.	The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Hong Kong Polytechnic University City University of Hong Kong ... and many others.	Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) UK Research and Innovation Wellcome Trust National Research Foundation (Singapore) ... and many others.

Full list of ORCID members can be found at: https://orcid.org/members