It's "ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks
ORCID’s original purpose was to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research. In a world where researchers are rewarded based on their work, which is typically linked to them by their name, misattributions are common – think, for example, how many C. Wangs or A. Smiths appear in author lists. Global, multidisciplinary, and interoperable by design, ORCID is now helping to solve this and many other challenges in the research ecosystem. To help meet the need for a fully-networked g…