The structured profile maintained at orcid.org for an individual ORCID iD, containing assertions about the person's names, employments, educations, funding, works, peer reviews, and service activities, each with a visibility setting and a source attribution.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A record listing 23 publications, 2 employments (current and previous), one PhD, and three funded grants.
Is an instance
An institutional HR system writing an employment assertion to a staff member's ORCID record via the Member API.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A staff page on a faculty website is not an ORCID record because it is not stored under the ORCID iD's resolution endpoint.
Not an instance
A Scopus author profile is not an ORCID record, though the two are often linked.

Editorial commentary

An ORCID record is a graph of claims about one person. Each claim (a work, an employment, a funding award, a peer-review activity) is attributed to a source — the iD owner themselves, a trusted organisation (university, publisher, funder), or a trusted individual. The record holder controls which assertions are visible to the public, to trusted parties, or to no-one but themselves. The record is editable via the ORCID web UI and via the ORCID API, and is exposed under content negotiation as JSON, XML, or RDF.

References

ORCID Inc., 'ORCID Record Structure' (developer documentation).
Haak L.L. et al., 'ORCID: A System to Uniquely Identify Researchers', Learned Publishing 25(4), 2012.

Also known as

ORCID profile

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="ORCID record"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-record" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-record",
  "name": "ORCID record",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-record",
  "description": "The structured profile maintained at orcid.org for an individual ORCID iD, containing assertions about the person's names, employments, educations, funding, works, peer reviews, and service activities, each with a visibility setting and a source attribution.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-record",
  "sameAs": [
    "ORCID profile"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:19",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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