ORCID in Publications

A number of scholarly publishers have also begun to require authors provide an ORCID upon submission of a publication. Because ORCID supports a wide variety of work types, a growing number of publishers have opted to add the functionality including:

• Wiley
• PLOS
• American Chemical Society
• The Royal Society
• IEEE
• Sage Publications
• Frontiers
• Springer Nature
• American Geophysical Union, and more.

For more information on this initiative you can see the ORCID Open Letter: One Year On (2017).

How Publishers Use ORCIDs

Publishers use ORCIDs to identify and link both authors and reviewers, to bring together name variations and works. 

Typically a journal publication workflow will follow the steps below (depending on specific use cases):  

• The author submits an article to the Publisher
• The publisher collects the authenticated author’s ORCID iD and requests permission to interact with their record, and stores that permission.
• The publisher collects data from the author’s record using the ORCID API and uses it to help populate the submission form.
  • This helps to save the author time manually completing information that is already available within their ORCID record.
  • Affiliations, funding, preprints and datasets can all be discovered 
• When a submission is accepted and the article is published, the publisher:
  • Includes the ORCID iDs in the article metadata.
  • Adds the publication to the author’s ORCID record, connecting the person with the publication.
  • Displays the iD within the article and the article metadata
  • Displays the iD on the authors information page
• Optionally, the publisher acknowledges reviewers for their peer review work
• Optionally, the publisher collects co-author and collaborator ORCID iDs and updates their records as well.