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ORCID

An ORCID iD is a free, permanent 16-digit identifier that belongs to a researcher rather than to an institution or a publisher. It takes the form https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000. Because it stays with you when you change name, employer, or country, it distinguishes you from every other researcher who shares your name and keeps your publication record attached to you.

Why Peer Academics asks for it

The journal handles submissions from several disciplines and several countries, where the same name may belong to different people and the same person may publish under different forms of a name. An ORCID iD removes that ambiguity in the correspondence during review, in the published author list, and in any metadata the journal may later supply to external services. It also lets a reader confirm which of several people with your name wrote the article.

What the journal requires

  • The corresponding author is expected to supply an ORCID iD at submission, and must supply one before an accepted manuscript is scheduled for publication.
  • All co-authors are strongly encouraged to supply theirs. A missing co-author iD does not delay a decision.
  • Enter each iD in the author's record in the submission metadata in the journal system, and repeat it on the title page. The metadata is what gets published; the title page is only for the editors.
  • An iD must be the author's own. Do not create an ORCID record on behalf of a co-author, and do not enter an iD you have not been given by its holder.

How to get one and how to add it

  1. Register at orcid.org/register. Registration is free and takes a few minutes. If you think you may already have an iD — many institutions and funders create them — search for your name first and claim the existing record rather than making a second one.
  2. Sign in to your Peer Academics account, open your user profile, and enter the iD there. It will then be offered automatically on your submissions.
  3. During submission, check the author list step: each author's iD is entered in that author's own record, not in a free-text field.
  4. If your manuscript is already under review and you obtained an iD afterward, send it to [email protected] with your submission number and it will be added.

What the journal does not do with it

Peer Academics has no Crossref membership and does not yet deposit publication metadata to external services, so the journal cannot add a Peer Academics article to your ORCID record for you. Once your article is published, add it to your record yourself from the ORCID website. The journal will state on this page when automatic deposit becomes possible.

Your ORCID iD is published with your article and is visible to anyone reading it. Nothing else from your ORCID record is copied or displayed by the journal. See the Privacy Statement for how the journal handles the personal data in your account.