ORCID iD is a unique identifier for researchers and scholars. Learn how to recover your ORCID iD by email, or check your account page if you are logged in. Sign in to ORCID to access your account or register for a unique researcher identifier. What is my ORCID iD? ORCID , which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a name-independent person-identifier founded specifically to help solve the problem of name ambiguity in research... ORCID provides a registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that is open, non-proprietary, transparent, and mobile. Researchers can register, maintain, and control their ORCID record data, and grant permissions to trusted partners and integrations.