Establish an ORCID ID?

[Boomvang]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of establishing an ORCID ID?

[secundem_artem]

Depending on the journal, you won't be able to submit a paper without it.

[mamselle]

Is this a science-y thing, or does it extend to the humanities as well?

M.

[pgher]

It helps disambiguate people with similar names. I don't have a particularly common name, yet I know of at least one other academic in a different field with the same name. I often get emails that are clearly targeting them.

[Boomvang]

I'm in the humanities and my book publisher asked me if I had one.

[mamselle]

OK, thanks, looks like I'd better check it out.

M.

[Puget]

No disadvantage, everyone publishing should have one. It makes your publications more searchable, and also lets you log into most journal websites through your ORCID account so you don't have to manage a gazillion passwords. Federal grant and some journal submissions require them.

[theteacher]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of establishing an ORCID ID?

Many advantages are discussed at https://www.elsevier.com/connect/authors-update/ten-reasons-to-get-and-use-an-orcid-id!

[mamselle]

I just got one.

M.

[Katrina Gulliver]

It was useful to me when starting a new academic job, and they wanted to create a research profile for me on the institution's website. I could just plug in my ORCID and it automatically populated.
It can be used to log in to journal submission websites too.

[poiuy]

I also got an orcid ID a few years ago for the reasons secundem and Puget said.  I am in the social sciences.
It's not had any disadvantages yet.

[mamselle]

The only thing I'm seeing is that I'll need to replicate some of the stuff I've already got up on Academia and/or ResearchGate, but, hey, it's all PR, right?

Might be a good, low-key Labor Day weekend project....

M.

[Boomvang]

Thanks for the replies to my initial question. I've established an ORCID ID. If someone wants to get in touch with me through ORCID, how do they do that? It seems that my email addresses are not viewable (and I'm not sure that I want them to be generally viewable).

[mamselle]

I haven't tried but if it's like Academia, they probably have a DM system.

Not that anyone ever answers (or, only a few).

M.

[Hibush]

I haven't tried but if it's like Academia, they probably have a DM system.

Not that anyone ever answers (or, only a few).

M.

Academia.edu is in part a social network. OrcID is primarily a unique identifier.

OrcID doesn't provide services, such as DM, but enables other services that use OrcID to get the DM to the right person among several with similar names. Academia could use it for disambiguation of users if they wanted.

Many organizations use that unique ID for manuscript or citation management. Some of those organizations, like Elsevier, aggregate data--such as publications--and index it by OrcID rather than name.

That limited function also means that signing up requires a minimal profile. The other services do their automated thing to populate your profile at those places.