ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID)

Howard Ratner
Chief Technology Officer, Executive VP, Nature Publishing Group
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Name ambiguity and attribution are persistent, critical problems embedded in the scholarly research ecosystem. The ORCID Initiative represents a community effort to establish an open, independent registry that is adopted and embraced as the industry’s de facto standard. Our mission is to resolve the systemic name ambiguity, by means of assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individual’s research output, to enhance the scientific discovery process and improve the efficiency of funding and collaboration.