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<\/p>\nThe global reach of the Web has brought immense benefits to scholars, but also introduces new challenges, one of which is name disambiguation. \u00a0Two scholars with the same name may find that their publications are misidentified, especially if both work in the same field or at the same institution. People who change their names (when they get married, for example) may also have difficulty getting credit for their prior publications. \u00a0Both of these scenarios happen frequently.<\/p>\n
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ORCID is a registry that provides a persistent digital identifier disambiguating your work from other researchers\u2019. \u00a0This ensures that your work is recognized. \u00a0ORCID integrates with submission systems<\/a> for major publishers and funders like the NIH, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, FigShare, Nature Publishing Group, Springer, and IEEE. \u00a0Since its founding in 2012, ORCID has added 2 million users.<\/span><\/p>\n Still not sold on taking a few minutes to get an ORCID ID? \u00a0Here are some reasons researchers (understandably!) balk at signing up for ORCID. \u00a0These objections actually make getting an ORCID<\/p>\n You may have already claimed your Google Scholar profile<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0However, Google\u2019s algorithm for adding content doesn\u2019t ensure all your works will show up, especially recent works and gray literature like whitepapers and presentations. \u00a0ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and Google Scholar are all for-profit enterprises. \u00a0Although they are good at obtaining content, it\u2019s rarely in their interest to freely share data with other systems. \u00a0Thus, you end up typing the same information over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n It may feel like ORCID is just another redundant profile. \u00a0But ORCID, a non-profit registry, shares your data with other parties that you trust, adhering to an \u201cinput once, reuse often\u201d<\/i><\/b> principle. \u00a0<\/span>Academic publishers<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>altmetrics tools<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>funders<\/span><\/a>, and institutional repositories are increasingly requiring or encouraging ORCID registration to auto-populate researchers\u2019 profiles. \u00a0This actually eliminates the frustration of typing out your CV information over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n Establishing an ORCID is free and quick. Register on the ORCID homepage<\/span><\/a>. Populate your ORCID profile with your education, employment, and publication information. \u00a0Your publications can be automatically imported from SCOPUS or Google Scholar. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Add your unique ORCID ID to your websites and social media accounts. \u00a0In the future, when applying for grants, submitting articles, and setting up profiles, use your ORCID to save time and ensure accuracy.<\/p>\n Images created with http:\/\/avatarmaker.com\/\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The problem: Names aren\u2019t unique, but your scholarship is The global reach of the Web has brought immense benefits to scholars, but also introduces new challenges, one of which is name disambiguation. \u00a0Two scholars with the same name may find that their publications are misidentified, especially if both work in the same field or at … Continue reading “Researchers: Distinguish Yourself with ORCID”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cdss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Objection 1: You already have a profile on Google Scholar \/ ResearchGate \/ Academia.edu<\/h2>\n
Objection 2: You\u2019re tired of filling out the same information over and over<\/h2>\n
So how do you get an ORCID?<\/h2>\n
You registered for an ORCID. \u00a0What now?<\/h2>\n
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