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A sixteen-digit number identifying a researcher.
Also known as: Researcher identifier, Author ID
An ORCID identifies a person rather than a document, which solves the problem that authors share names and change them. It is a persistent identifier in the same family as the DOI, and it is controlled by the researcher rather than by a publisher.
Identifies an individual researcher persistently, in a sixteen-digit number displayed in four hyphenated groups.
Contexts: History
Solves name ambiguity and name change, which no author-name string can, and is controlled by the person it names rather than by a publisher.
Contexts: History
A green circular emblem with the letters iD, followed by four groups of four numerals separated by hyphens.