What is my ORCID ID?

Your ORCID ID is a unique, open digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher with the same or a similar name to you.

Anyone who participates in research, scholarship, or innovation can register an ORCID ID for themselves free of charge, and you can use the same ID throughout your whole career -- even if your name changes or you move to a different organization, discipline, or country.

By using your ID in research workflows like manuscript and grant submission, you can connect yourself with your professional activities and affiliations. After signing in to your record, you can grant permission for the systems and platforms you use to update your ORCID record with trusted information about you. This enables easy and error-free sharing and re-use of this information.

The ORCID ID is an https URI with a 16-digit number that is compatible with the ISO Standard (ISO 27729), also known as the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), e.g. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789

Initially ORCID IDs will be randomly assigned by the ORCID Registry from a block of numbers that will not conflict with ISNI-formatted numbers assigned in other ways. ORCID IDs always require all 16 digits of the identifier; they cannot be shortened to remove leading zeros if they exist.

No information about a person is encoded in the ORCID ID. The identifiers were designed to be usable in situations where personally-identifiable information should/can't be shared. Also, since the ORCID ID is designed to be a career-long identifier, no information that can change over a person's career is embedded in the ID, e.g., country, institution, field of study.

**see more at: https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006897334-What-is-my-ORCID-iD-and-how-should-I-use-it-