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A researcher’s name isn’t enough to reliably identify the author of, or contributor to, a paper published in a scientific journal or a dataset uploaded to a repository. Many researchers share the same name, while others have different names during their career, or different variations of the same one. For example, A. Smith, Anna Smith, and Anna L. Smith could all refer to the same person. But a unique identifier, as provided by ORCID, which researchers can associate with their name variations and their research works, is a way to ensure that these links can be made accurately and reliably. This will help A. Smith to get credit for her publications by uniquely identifying her as the author of her work across all systems integrated with the ORCID registry.
