ORC-ID

"Scholarly outputs are the products through which researchers present the work they have carried out. They have a considerable influence on academics' employment prospects and on the academic titles they obtain. In order to learn about the work carried out by a scholar, the scholarly publications they have written are examined. The ORCID iD system was established to facilitate this examination. In this system, a dedicated academic identity is created for each researcher, and records are made through individual applications." (Çetinkaya, 2019)

Within the scope of the work conducted through the cooperation between TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), the use of ORC-ID information for Researcher Identification Numbers, and the requirement that authors of journals included in or applying to be included in the TR Index hold an ORC-ID and that it be stated on the first page of articles (Article 14), are among the criteria.

WHAT IS ORC-ID?

• ORCID is a broad infrastructure that enables researchers to share their information worldwide.
• Its founding partners include organisations such as Crossref, Elsevier and Thomson Reuters.
• "The aim is to bring together all of a researcher's research outputs under a single account by using a single digital identity." ( libguides.iyte).
• "It was created to establish a global open identifier registry for researchers." (Haak et al., 2012).
• "The aim is to provide a unique and persistent identifier and related web services in order to enable the sharing of information about people, organisations, resources and research outputs." (Haak, Meadows and Brown, 2018).
• It is a non-profit organisation funded through donors and sponsors.
• To date, 9.46 million (April 2023) researchers have registered with the ORCID system. In this system, a personal 16-digit identifier is used that researchers can use to distinguish themselves clearly from other researchers and to establish reliable connections.
• It is linked with more than 500 systems worldwide.

WHY SHOULD YOU OBTAIN AN ORC-ID?

In order to obtain information about an academic's work, their publications must be examined, and various problems may be encountered while doing so.

• Similarities in names,
• Turkish/special characters in first names and surnames,
• Changes of institution or country,
• Surname changes of female authors,
• Differences in the way names are entered,
• Research outputs being published in a wide variety of places and in different formats.

Because of the problems listed above, difficulties arise in accessing all of an academic's publications collectively. Reliable results cannot be obtained in academic analyses of an author or their affiliated institution. An ORCID identifier securely records your work, education, awards, projects and memberships.

• The only solution to overcoming these problems is to hold a Digital Academic Identification Number.
• Stating an ORC-ID number in personal CVs not only enhances credibility but also amounts to a trademark registration for the researcher. The researcher can also be reached via the ORC-ID QR CODE.
• You can integrate your ORC-ID with various databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, CrossRef, Dergipark, DataCite, OpenAire, Open Science Framework (OSF), Crossref, etc.).
• By integrating with the most widely used academic platforms, ORC-ID solves the difficulty of keeping multiple profiles up to date.
• Once your work is published on platforms that work in integration with ORC-ID, it will automatically be integrated into your ORC-ID record and into all databases you have linked to it.
• You can log in with your ORC-ID to any academic platform where you see this emblem.
• Elsevier Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science and ResearcherID are the most widely used sources in world university rankings. Matching these with ORC-ID and bringing them together in a single place will increase academic visibility both for the academic and for their affiliated institution.
• It stays with you throughout your career. ORC-ID remains with you through changes of status, position, institution and country.
• The Digital Academic Identity Card creation service is provided by ORCID free of charge . https://orcid.org/register
• An important reminder so that your publications can be matched automatically!
• ORC-ID en sık kullanılan akademik platformlarla bütünleşerek birden fazla profili güncel tutmak konusundaki zorluğa çözüm getirir.
  • You need to carry out the matching process with academic platforms via ORC-ID (Works -- Add works – Search&Link).
  • If the database you want is not in the list opened via Works -- Add works – Search&Link, you should register with and log in to the relevant database, then find the ORC-ID matching field and complete the process there. You can usually find it under the edit profile step. Example: Dergipark.
• An important reminder for the membership process! Selecting "Everyone" will increase the visibility of your publications.

Please do not leave the fields marked with -->>  blank. You will no longer have to worry about following and keeping up to date multiple profiles on many academic platforms.

AFTER REGISTERING, HOW CAN I QUICKLY UPLOAD MY PUBLICATIONS TO ORC-ID?

You can use the following options to upload your profile information and your work. These items are explained below with examples.

1. By selecting a database under the "Works -- Add works – Search&Link" option in ORC-ID,
2. By making entries one by one with the "Works -- Add works – Add manually" option,
3. By setting up ORC-ID integration from within the academic platforms you are a member of,
4. By obtaining the bibliographic records of your publications from databases that allow export in BibTeX format and importing them with the ORC-ID "Works -- Add works – Import BibTeX" option.
5. You can upload work that has a DOI number to your ORC-ID profile with the "Works -- Add works – Add DOI" option.

1. The "Works -- Add works – Import BibTeX" option. From Researcher ID, provided by Thomson Reuters, Scopus ID, provided by Elsevier, Google Scholar Crossreff etc. databases you can export the publications in your profiles in "BibTex" format and upload them to your ORC-ID profile.

2. The "Works -- Add works – Add DOI" option. Add work that has a DOI number automatically.

3. The "Works -- Add works – Search&Link" option. You can list publications associated with the first name and surname registered in your ORC-ID in many databases such as Scopus, ResearcherID, Crossref and ISNI via ORC-ID, then manually select your own publications and transfer them to ORC-ID. The number of integrated databases in this list is continually increasing.

4. Manual entry with the "Works -- Add works – Add manually" option

EXAMPLES OF "ACADEMIC PORTALS" THAT CAN BE LOGGED INTO WITH ORC-ID

1. You can match your DergiPark membership with your ORC-ID from the "Edit Profile" step.

After this process, you can log in to DergiPark with your ORC-ID.

2. You can log in with your ORC-ID to Publons, the "researcher service" provided by Thomson Reuters.

3. Crossref: you can carry out automatic matching for the publications you have previously defined in your profile. Even if you do not have a Crossreff membership, it lists publications matching your ORC-ID name and lets you select those that belong to you.

4. Elsevier Scopus: in your profile you can list the publications matching your first name and surname, select them manually and transfer them to ORC-ID. In addition, your Scopus ID will appear in your ORC-ID profile.

5. DataCite: you can link your ORC-ID with this database here.

6. OpenAIRE: you can log in to the European Open Science portal with your ORC-ID.

7. Zenodo: you can log in to the Open Access database with your ORC-ID.