ORCID iDs at Springer Nature

Connect your iD to your research and receive recognition for your work

What is ORCID?

ORCID is a non-profit organisation providing researchers with a unique digital identifier. These identifiers can be used by editors, funding agencies, publishers, and institutions to reliably identify individuals in the same way that ISBNs and DOIs identify books and articles. This removes the risk of confusing your identity with another researcher with the same name. The ORCID website provides you with a page where your comprehensive research activity can be stored.

Springer Nature collaborates with the ORCID organisation to make sure that your research contributions (as authors and peer reviewers) are correctly attributed to you.

How can I get an ORCID iD?

  • Registration is free at orcid.org/register. It takes less than a minute.
  • You only need to register once to use your ORCID iD permanently.

On registration, you'll get an ORCID record. You can control what work you include on it and decide who will be able to see it. 

What an ORCID iD can be used for?

How can I use the ORCID iD as an author?

  • You can include your ORCID iD in our manuscript submission systems. If needed, you can also register for the iD during the submission process. 

  • Your ORCID iD will be displayed on the published work.

  • Sharing your ORCID record makes it easier to draw attention to your work and show your academic track record in a concise format. It will help improve the discoverability of your research and support collaboration within the research community.

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How do I add my peer reviews to my ORCID record?

Springer Nature is committed to recognizing the valuable and critical role performed by peer reviewers. 

  • When you submit your review you can set up your review contribution to be automatically added to your ORCID record after the final decision on the manuscript has been made.
  • When the decision has been made, your review contribution will be shown on your ORCiD record. Only the year of the review and the journal (or book series) title will be shown.
  • You will be asked to make a decision on opting in or out for every review. However reviews of  multiple revisions of the same manuscript will show as a single review contribution on ORCID, with the year of the most recent review.
  • You can request for your contribution to be deleted from ORCID at any time by contacting them directly.

Adding your peer review manually

  • Springer Nature can only automatically add review contributions to ORCID if you have opted-in before the final decision on the manuscript has been made. 

  • Past review contributions, or requests made after the final decision on the manuscript has been made will need to be added to ORCID through your Web of Science profile (previously known as Publons). You'll need to be registered with Web of Science first.

  • You can ask Web of Science to recognise a specific review by emailing them the review confirmation email we sent to you to reivews@webofscience.com.

  • You'll also need to grant Web of Science permissions to update your ORCID record on your behalf. More information on this can be found on the ORCID website.

Other peer recognition resources offered by Springer Nature can be found on our peer reviewer page.

ORCID profile page example

ORCID profile page example

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