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ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from other researchers. Staff and doctoral researchers should connect their ORCID iD to RPS.
What is an ORCID iD?
An ORCID iD is a free, unique, persistent identifier that helps ensure that your research information and outputs are accurately attributed to you and easily discoverable. Your ORCID iD can connect records of your affiliations, grants, publications, peer review and more across different systems, including RPS, so that you can save time and effort by manage this information automatically. Using your ORCID iD in publications helps you get full credit for all of your work. Research funders like Wellcome and the UK Research Councils (UKRI) require or recommend ORCID iDs. Watch a short video about ORCID.
Register for an ORCID iD and connect it to RPS
Current UCL staff and doctoral researchers should connect their ORCID iD to RPS. This allows RPS to use your ORCID iD to identify publications in external databases (e.g. Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed), to send publications to your ORCID record, saving you time and effort, and to display a link to your ORCID record in your public profile. Undergraduate and taught postgraduate students do not have RPS records.
To connect or reconnect your ORCID to RPS:
- In your RPS ORCID Settings (RPS > Menu (top left) > My Profile > Settings > ORCID Settings), click "Register or Connect your ORCID iD" (or "Reconnect your ORCID iD" if your connection has expired*).
- Register for an ORCID iD or sign in to ORCID if you already have one.
- Click "Authorize access" to connect RPS to your ORCID record.
- You will be redirected to RPS, where UCL recommends you choose "Read from and write publication data to my ORCID account", so your ORCID updates automatically when you claim publications. Please take a moment to review your publications and any other author identifiers (Scopus, Web of Science) before enabling, to make sure that accurate information is passed through to ORCID.
* If you want change to change an existing connection (e.g. from "read" to "read and write"), you may need to remove your ORCID from your Automatic Claiming page (RPS > My Profile > Settings > Automatic Claiming) and follow the steps above to reconnect.
You should only have one ORCID iD. If you have more than one, follow ORCID's instructions to remove the duplicates.
If you need any assistance, please contact RPS Support.
After you connect your ORCID iD to RPS
Your existing and new publications will be sent from RPS to ORCID automatically in a day or two. By default, RPS won't send journal articles with a status other than "published" or "published online", nor publications marked as private. You can change this in your ORCID Settings (RPS > Menu (top left) > My Profile > Settings > ORCID Settings), and you can also remove publications from ORCID here. In your ORCID record, you can combine, delete and edit publications, and connect your ORCID record to various sources, including DataCite.
When RPS finds publications records that contain your ORCID iD in external databases (e.g. Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed), it claims and adds them to your RPS publications list automatically. You can change these settings in your Automatic Claiming page (RPS > Menu (top left) > My Profile > Settings > Automatic Claiming). If you have added publications to your ORCID record manually, you can export them from ORCID and import them to RPS (RPS > My Profile > Tools > Import Publications).
In your ORCID Settings page, you can update your ORCID record with your UCL affiliation, ensuring that it is correctly represented.
If you have a public profile in UCL Profiles, your ORCID iD will be displayed there.