Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) (orcid)

The ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCIDs website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information).

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Typedatatype
Wikidata propertyP496
Regular expression0000-000(1-[5-9]|2-[0-9]|3-[0-4])\d{3}-\d{3}[\dX]
Sources
Classification Classificationidentifier
Categories
  • science (Scientific)
  • persons (Person related)
Languages
  • common (Common to most languages)
Examples
  • 0000-0002-1003-5675 (Mike Tailor)
  • 0000-0002-1825-0097 (Josiah S. Carberry)