ORCID Open Letter - Publishers

Join the many publishers that have committed to requiring ORCID iDs in the publishing process for their journal(s)!

In November, 2015, a group of publishers asked ORCID to help facilitate communications about their plans to require authors to use an ORCID iD, including hosting this open letter explaining their rationale, developing best practices for using iDs in publishing, and maintaining the signatory list.  The publishers’ goal is to encourage others to join them in supporting the adoption of ORCID. Publishers signing this open letter are committing to requiring ORCID iDs following specific implementation standards. While all publishing organizations are welcome to sign the letter, an Effective Date is only shown in the table below for those who demonstrate that their use of ORCID meets our best practices. Read more in ORCID Open Letter - One Year On Report.

Why Require ORCID?

ORCID provides a digital name – or iD – that uniquely and persistently identifies researchers and other contributors to the research effort. By connecting this iD to different research activities and affiliations across multiple research information platforms, ORCID helps enable recognition and reduce the reporting burden for researchers. It also enhances the discovery process and lays the foundation for trust in a digital research environment. Crossref’s Auto-Update functionality – which (with researcher permission) updates an author’s ORCID record when the author uses their iD during the publishing process – further benefits researchers by alleviating the need to re-enter publication data in multiple systems. Importantly, it also provides an independent assertion of the connection between the author and their work.  

With well over 7,000 journals already collecting ORCID iDs from corresponding authors, through all major manuscript submission systems, publishers are in a unique position to facilitate widespread adoption of ORCID. Indeed, researchers are most likely to encounter ORCID in publishing systems: about 75% of registrations occur because journals are asking authors to include their ORCID in new submissions. Researchers are also increasingly encountering ORCID in their university systems, and many funders now recommend or require the use of ORCID in their grant application systems.

Implementation Standard

There are implementation guidelines for publishers who wish to sign this letter. The following minimum standard of implementation ensures the collection of ORCID IDs is efficient, adheres to best practices, and reduces the burden on researchers:

1. Require. ORCID iDs are required for corresponding authors of published papers, with the understanding that ORCID iD collection should be enabled as an option for all authors and should ideally take place at submission.
2. Collect. The collection of ORCID iDs is done via the ORCID API (authenticated ORCID iDs), meaning that authors are not asked to type in or search for their iD.
3. Auto-update. Publisher Crossref DOI metadata is updated to include ORCID iDs for authors, so that Crossref Auto-update can be implemented. The ORCID iD DOI metadata includes the attribute indicating whether the iD was collected using the API (authenticated).
4. Publish. Author/co-author ORCID iDs are embedded into article metadata, at least in online versions, and ideally in print versions of the publication.  At a minimum the ORCID iD logo should be displayed next to the name of each author who has connected their iD; in online versions and metadata, the author name should be hyperlinked to the appropriate ORCID iD directly or via a landing page.  

Join

This is a living document; if you are a publisher and have plans to require ORCID, please use this webform to be added as a signatory.

Signatories

We, the following journals and publishers shall be requiring ORCID iDs for authors, according to the best practices laid out above.  We encourage other publishers to join us in this initiative. We hope that our action inspires the community, including researchers, research funders, and research institutions, to join us in adopting ORCID and making it easy for researchers to connect their iD to their contributions and affiliations.

Journal or Publisher	Signature Date	Effective Date	Signatory
1. The Royal Society	1 January 2016	1 January 2016	Stuart Taylor Publishing Director
2. PLOS	1 January 2016	7 December 2016	Elizabeth Marincola Chief Executive Officer
3. eLife	1 January 2016	7 January 2016	Mark Patterson Executive Director
4. EMBO Press	1 January 2016	24 February 2016	Bernd Pulverer Head of Scientific Publications
5. American Geophysical Union	1 January 2016	1 March 2016	Brooks Hanson Publishing Director
6. IEEE	1 January 2016	11 July 2016	Sheila Hemami Director & Vice President, Publication Services and Products
7. Hindawi	1 January 2016	1 July 2016	Paul Peters Chief Executive Officer
8. Science journals	1 January 2016	11 March 2016	Marcia McNutt Editor-in-Chief
9. ScienceOpen	7 January 2016	May 2014	Stephanie Dawson Chief Executive Officer
10. Frontiers	7 January 2016		Kamila Markram Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
11. JMIR Publications	8 January 2016	2014	Gunther Eysenbach  Editor & Publisher
12. Grupo Comunicar Ediciones	8 January 2016		Carmen Fonseca-Mora  International Co-Editor
13. Military Technical Courier	8 January 2016		Nebojsa Gacesa  Editor
14. The Company of Biologists	14 January 2016		Claire Moulton  Publisher
15. IDEA (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados) de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH)	18 January 2016		Manuel Loyola Tapia  Editor
16. Faculty of 1000	15 February 2016		Rebecca Lawrence Editor
17. Japan Epidemiological Association	14 April 2016	1 August 2016	Prof. Hiroyasu Iso President
18. Rockefeller University Press	27 May 2016	21 September 2016	Robert O'Donnell  Director of Publishing Technologies
19. The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery	25 July 2016	1 January 2017	Jason Miller  Executive Publisher
20. Skyfox Publishing	19 October 2016		Katharine de Bergman Managing Editor
21. Wiley	27 November 2016	28 November 2016	Natasha White Marketing Director
22. Royal Society of Chemistry	28 November 2016	30 November 2016	Emma Wilson Director of Publishing
23. American Chemical Society	28 November 2016	2 November 2016	Sarah Tegen VP, Global Editorial & Author Services
24.Wellcome Open Research	29 November 2016	16 November 2016	Robert Kiley Head, Digital Services
25. INFORMS	1 December 2016	1 January 2017	Matthew Walls Director of Publications
26. Springer Nature	3 March 2017	28 April 2017	Alison Mitchell Chief Publishing Advisor
27. Journal of IMAB	22 March 2017		Gospodin Peytchinski Publisher & Executive Director
28. IOP Publishing	17 July 2017	10 September 2017	Jamie Hutchins Publishing & Production Director
29. American Physical Society	17 July 2017		Matthew Salter Publisher
30. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem	17 July 2017		Janine Schirmer Editor in Chief
31. Neotropical Ichthyology	19 July 2017		CS Pavanelli Editor in Chief
32. Nauplius	19 July 2017		Paula Araujo Editor in Chief
33. Neuroscience Bulletin	28 July 2017		Zhirui Liu Scientific Editor
34. Social Sciences Academic Press (China)	1 August 2017		Channing Chai Executive Deputy Director
35. Neural Regeneration Research	3 August 2017		Meng Zhao Managing Editor
36. Society of Open Science	27 December 2017		Pradeep Kumar Editor-in-Chief
37. The Sankalpa International Journal of Management Decisions	27 December 2017		Basanta Kumar Editor
38. Japan Society for Occupational Health	18 January 2018	January 2018	Akizumi Tsutsumi Editor-in-Chief
39. Business Perspectives	29 January 2018		Liudmyla Ostapenko Director
40. Jurnal Kardiologi Indonesia	29 January 2018		Raymond Pranata Managing Editor
41. Revista Brasileira Politica Internacional	15 February 2018		Antonio Carlos Lessa Editor-in-Chief
42. Boletim de Ciencias Geo'desicas	19 February 2018		Luciene Delazari Editor-in-Chief
43. Revista Paulista de Pediatria	20 February 2018		R Guinsburg Editor-in-Chief
44. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana - Brazilian Journal of Urban Management	26 February 2018		Rodrigo Firmino Editor
45. Revista Texto & Contexto Enfermagem	28 February 2018		Selma Regina de Andrade Editor-in-Chief
46. Brazilian Business Review	7 March 2018		Fabio Motoki Editor-in-Chief
47. Brazilian Journal of Food Technology	7 March 2018		Claire Isabel Grigoli de Luca Sarantopoulos Editor-in-Chief
48. Ciencia Rural	15 March 2018		Rudi Weiblen Chief Editor
49. Serbian Society of Subject Didacticians	13 May 2018		Jelena Stanisavljević President
50. SAGE Publications	25 May 2018	27 November 2018	Robert Howard SVP Global Journals
51. Escola Anna Nery Revista de Enfermagem	6 June 2018		Ivone Evangelista-Cabral Editor
52. Investigacion Postgrado Revista	25 June 2018		Ivette Breceno Asistente Editorial
53. Scientific Open Access Journals	25 June 2018		Vijay Mittapally Executive Director
54. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca	25 June 2018		Jose Luis Pardal-Refoyo Editor in Chief
55. Synthesishub	13 July 2018		Surendar Aravindhan Publisher
56. Virtus Interpress	10 August 2018	10 August 2018	Alexander Kostyuk Editor in Chief
57. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences (JAIMS)	10 August 2018		Umapati C. Baragi Editor in Chief
58. Biomedical Research Network	24 August 2018		Angela Roy Assistant Managing Editor
59. Niger Delta Medical Journal	24 August 2018		Tubonye C Harry Editor in Chief
60. SOCRATES	24 August 2018		Chandra Saurabh Editor in Chief
61. Royallite Publishers	24 August 2018		Amos Ojwang Publishing Manager
62. Atlantis Press	6 November 2018		Remco de Boer CEO
63. Al-Anbar Journal of Agricultural Science	6 November 2018		Salwan M. Abdulateef Secretary of the Editorial Board
64. Pulse Medic	6 November 2018		Martin Anderson MD
65. Revista Portuguesa de Cirurgia	6 November 2018		Nuno Borges Associate Editor
66. Peertechz Publications Inc	8 November 2018		Maha Donepudi Publishing Director and Managing Editor
67. Journal of Advanced Sciences and Engineering	31 December 2018		Takialddin Al smadi Editor-in-Chief
68. AIEM	31 December 2018		Núria Planasi Editor-in-Chief
69. Sudarshan Publication	31 December 2018		Anuj Mittal Editor
70. IJRISAT Journal	31 December 2018		Pushparaj Pal Editor
71. Ausasia Science and Technology Press,	18 January 2019		Jianchao Cai Editor-in-Chief
72. OA Publication	30 January 2019		Sreekanth Reddy MD
73. BMJ Journals	18 February 2019		Claire Rawlinson Publisher
74. Journal of Physical Education and Sports Studies	25 February 2019		Mehmet Inan Editor
75. Cambridge University Press	28 March 2019	31 May 2019	Emily Marchant Author Services Manager
76. African Journal of Political Sciences	7 June 2019		Chaib Bachir Editor in Chief
77. ISCE	8 June 2019		Nuno Abranja Executive Editor
78. Ariel University Press	5 August 2019		Ronen A. Cohen Editor in Chief
79. Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Society	27 August 2019		Mark A. Gregory Managing Editor
80. The British Blockchain Association	22 August 2019		Naseem Naqvi Editor in Chief
81. Excel Publications	26 November 2019		Jaikaran Singh Editor in Chief
82. Indian Drugs	21 January 2020		Ved Prakash Pandey
83.Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal	02 April 2019		Vinicius Vasconcellos
84. Revista Mexicana de Oftalmología	07 May 2019		Manuel Garza Leon Editor in Chief
85. Associação Brasileira de Linguística	10 Dec 2019		Miguel Oliveira, Jr. President
86. Bioagro	29 Jan 2020		Reinaldo Pire Editor-in-Chief
87. Grupo Gasca	14 Feb 2020		Marcela Gasca  CEO
88. Jurnal Ilmiah Peuradeun	27 Feb 2020		Tabrani Za Managing Editor
89. Poltekkes Kemenkes Kendari	24 Feb 2020		Rosyanti L Editor in Chief
90. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research	10 April 2020		Shahid Kamal Editor in Chief
91. Revista Portuguesa de Psicologia da Aparência	7th May 2020		José Mendes  Chief Editor
92. ColNes	7th May 2020		Carlos Luis González-Valiente Managing editor
93. Investigaciones Sobre Lectura	27 March 2019		Roberto Cuadros-Muñoz Editor
94.Communication & Methods Journal	16 July 2019		Isidro Jiménez Gómez Editorial coordinator
95. Revista Innova Educación	20 January 2020		Wilson Gregorio Sucari Turpo Director
96. RS Global Sp. z O.O.	8 May 2020		Roman Laputyn  CEO