Distinguish yourself with ORCID ORCID iD is a unique and persistent identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and connects you to your research activities, so you always get the credit for your work. Funders, institutions, and societies can easily identify you and your research You don’t waste time entering repetitive data when reporting on your past activities Your professional activities are clearly linked back to you, including academic positions, publications, peer review activities and awards You can easily comply with funder mandates

More than 1200 systems – from academic libraries to manuscript submission sites – have integrated ORCID iDs and many funders have issued a statement or policy relating to the use of ORCID iDs.

ICRP is a member of ORCID and has integrated the functionality into our online publication and submission systems. To make for easy compliance and improve your publishing experience, most of ICRP’s journal submission sites allow you to create an ORCID iD and associate it with your account.

Authenticate. ICRP Author Services is collecting your ORCID iD so that we can verify your identity. When you click the “Authorize” button, we will ask you to share your iD using an authenticated process: either by registering for an ORCID iD or, if you already have one, to sign in to your ORCID account. We do this to ensure that you are correctly identified and securely connecting your ORCID iD. Learn more in What’s so special about signing in.

Collect. Filling in the same information about yourself over and over again is frustrating. That’s why we let you choose to use information from your ORCID record to populate your Author Services profile. Learn more in Enter once, reuse often.