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Creating Author Profiles

This guide covers how to create and update online author profiles to represent your scholarly activity.

Why ORCiD?

Creating an ORCID profile allows you to distinguish yourself from other researchers with similar names. An ORCID profile allows you to create a public record of your affiliations, awards, and publications that let's others know what's you and what's someone else. ORCID id numbers can be integrated into publications with most journals to help researchers discover your other works.

Creating an ORCID profile:

  • Distinguishes you from other researchers with similar names
  • Allows you to create a unified record of your work across multiple institutions
  • Allows you to create a unified record of your work across multiple names or name variants you may use
  • Creates a unique ID number that you can add to your next articles, allowing researchers to link your new work with your past work
  • Allows you to create a record of your peer reviewing activity

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Create an ORCiD Profile

Set Your Email and Name Variants

When you create an account on the ORCID registration page you will have an option to include an additional email. If you use your UCCS email as your primary email, we recommend including an additional personal email account that you can use as a backup for resetting your password in case you change institutions.

Once you have registered your account, you can include name variants in your profile. Your published name should be the name you publish under most frequently. Then add any variants you've published under in the "Also known as" section of the profile. This is a great option if you've changed either your first or last name since publishing older articles, or if you occasionally publish under your initials.

An Orcid profile page with a puiblished name text entry box above the also known as section. This section has multiple text entry boxes.

Choose Your Visibility Settings

When you create your account you will choose your overall visibility settings. The options include:

  • Everyone
  • Trusted parties - organizations or individuals who you have authorized to view your profile
  • Only me  

In addition to your account, you can control the visibility level for everything you enter, such as:

  • Name variants
  • Publications
  • Funders
  • Employment history

Add Your Publications

Use the Works section of ORCiD to link your profile to your published research. You can do this by:

  • Using the Search and Link feature to find them in a database that indexes your work
  • Searching for each publication by DOI (when available)
  • Saving your published work to a citation manager like Mendeley and exporting a BibTex file that you can upload into ORCiD
  • Manually entering your publications