ORCID

As a founding member of the German ORCID consortium, the TUM promotes the use of the ORCID iD and offers you the option to link your ORCID iD to your TUMonline account.

Overview

What is ORCID?

What are your benefits of an ORCID iD?

ORCID in Germany

Contact

ORCID at TUM

Courses

What is ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a non-profit organisation, which provides unique identifiers (ORCID iDs) for authors. These IDs are utilized for author identification by many ORCID members – including research organisations, publishers, funders and professional associations.

ORCID iD

The ORCID iD is a persistent identifier for individuals. It contains 16 digits grouped in blocks of four. As part of a web address it refers to a person's ORCID record, in which further data can be stored – permanently and affiliation independently – such as:

name variants in order to make name changes due to marriage or different spellings of a name transparent
addresses of websites and blogs
links to other identification management services and author profiles (e.g. Google Scholar Profil, ISNI, ResearcherID).

For more information on the relevance of author profiles and how to create and maintain them please consult the university library's info sheet "Academic Identity Management".

ORCID in Germany

Since 2016, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been fostering the dissemination of the ORCID iD in Germany through its three-year project „ORCID DE – Förderung der Open Researcher and Contributor ID in Deutschland“ (project proposal under DOI: 10.2312/lis.16.01).

The project aims to support the implementation of the ORCID iD at universities and non-university research institutions in Germany – organisationally, legally and technically. In particular, the ORCID iD is considered relevant for open access repositories and open access publishing services. A further goal of the project is the interlocking with the Integrated Authority File (GND) and thus the integration of the ORCID iD into library systems for author identification. The ORCID project partners commissioned a legal report on the protection of data privacy in ORCID, which is now online available.

ORCID DE project partners are the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the German National Library and the University Library Bielefeld. The project was initiated by the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI).

ORCID at TUM

The Technical University of Munich is a founding member of the German ORCID consortium and recommends all authors to use the ORCID iD.

As a special service, TUM members can create their personal ORCID iD via TUMonline or link their existing ORCID iD with their TUM account. Simply visit your personal business card in TUMonline and follow the link "ORCID iD" in the column "Research & Teaching". There you will find the link "Link or create ORCID iD now". You can revoke your permission allowing TUMonline access to your ORCID iD at any time.

What are your benefits of an ORCID iD?

Gradually you will be able to use your ORCID iD with further services at the TUM. For example, it is planned to provide options for registering your ORCID iD when you publish on mediaTUM, the TUM's institutional respository, or when you apply for grants from the TUM Open Access Publishing Fund.

Already now, you can benefit from the following advantages:

Submitting Publications
Many publishers and funders require you to provide your ORCID iD when submitting papers or applying for funding. The aim is to ensure that you are unambiguously distinguished from other authors and that your publications are correctly attributed to you.
ORCID Record
Regardless of your institutional affiliation or any job changes, you have the possibility to present your academic profile on an independent site, to register different variants of your name and to link to other author profiles such as Web of Science's ResearcherID or Scopus Author ID. Privacy settings allow you to modify the visibility of your details.
ORCID in Literature and Citation Databases
When you provide an ORCID iD with all your publications and the ID will subsequently be listed in the bibliographic records of literature databases, literature retrieval will be facilitated and your papers will unambiguously be attributed to you. Furthermore, you can ensure that all your publications listed in literature databases contribute to bibliometric indicators such as citation rates or h-index.

Contact

If you have any questions about ORCID or author profiles, please contact us at:

Technical University of Munich
University Library
bibliometrie@ub.tum.de

Courses on ORCID

Research Impact Deep Dive – Academic Identity Management and Responsible Metrics

In this course, we will discuss the importance of fully updated author profiles and critically examining research evaluation metrics. Together, we will question common bibliometric indicators to gain a deeper understanding of your own research impact. Take competent steps to increase the visibility of your research!

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Bibliometrics and Impact Consultation Service

Would you like to analyse, improve, or simply better understand the impact of your research output? We will work with you on answers to your questions about the use and meaning of metrics such as the h-index, Impact Factor, and more.

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