Update on Linking ORCID To Implement Persistent Identifier Requirements While Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency

November 12, 2024

In 2017, we announced that eRA Commons would establish a real-time link with ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification), a non-profit organization that assigns persistent identifiers to scientists and their research. Since that time, we have observed a dramatic increase in the number of NIH supported investigators with an NIH account linked to their ORCID iD.