I have not heard/used ORCID but it is similar in nature to ResearcherID
that is part of the Web of Science/Knowledge databases. Here is the
description of ResearcherID from their website:
|What is ResearcherID?
|ResearcherID provides a solution to the author ambiguity problem
|within the scholarly research community. Each member is assigned
|a unique identifier to enable researchers to manage their publication
|lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential
|collaborators and avoid author misidentification. In addition, your
|ResearcherID information integrates with the Web of Knowledge
|and is ORCID compliant, allowing you to claim and showcase your
|publications from a single one account. Search the registry to find
|collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is
|used around the world!
As the Wikipedia entry states, the ORCID is derived from the
ResearcherID system which is owned by Thomson Reuters. It should
be noted that registration in one system transfers to the other, so
if you have a ResearcherID number but not an ORCID, you can join
ORCID with your ResearcherID.
It should be noted that in the Wikipedia entry that is a list of ORCID
members that use ORCID to identify individual authors but there is no
APA or APS or other psychology oriented group though psychology
publishers such as SAGE, Springer, Wiley, etc. are included. So,
there does not appear to be a pressing need to get an ORCID if one
only publishes in APA journals.
The ResearcherID number is a little more important because it allows
one to tag one's publications in the Web of Science database which
allows one to get relevant citation information and statistics. This
allows one to exclude publications by authors who have the same
name as you (e.g., allows me to exclude publications of the historian
Michael Palij).
In the future, I'm sure that the ResearcherID/ORCID/whatever will
become more relevant as new electronic products are made available
(e.g., datasets) and one wants to make sure that it is correctly associated
with the correct researcher (especially for administrative purposes,
such as yearly productivity reports to the dean).
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:26:49 -0800, MiguelRoig wrote:
A colleague urged her friends to join ORCID: http://about.orcid.org/, but I
really do not much more about it beyond this short Wikipedia piece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID,
" ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary
alphanumeric
code to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors . [1] [2]
[3]
This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the
scientific literature can be hard to electronically recognize as most
personal
names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural
differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name
abbreviations
and employ different writing systems . It would provide for humans a
persistent
identity - an "author DOI" - similar to that created for content-related
entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs). [4]
The ORCID organization offers an open and independent registry intended to
be
the de facto standard for author identification in science and related
academic
publishing . On 16 October 2012, ORCID launched its registry services [ 5 ]
[ 6
] and started issuing user identifiers. [ 7 ] "
Sounds to me like the author's equivalent of an article's DOI. Have any of
you
heard of it? Any comments would be welcome.
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