Elsevier ORCID integration links an author’s ORCID iD to Editorial Manager via single sign-on and OAuth-based data sharing, while Wiley, Taylor & Francis and ACS each implement the same ORCID Registry differently — varying by requirement, auto-population depth and login mechanism. Authors submitting across all four should expect a different experience each time.
ORCID is a non-profit organisation that provides researchers with a free, persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) used to distinguish them from other researchers with similar names across publishing, funding and institutional systems.
- What does ORCID integration mean inside a submission system?
- Elsevier: Editorial Manager’s ORCID single sign-on
- Wiley: mandatory linking across ScholarOne and Editorial Manager
- Taylor & Francis and ACS: portals, Paragon Plus and ACS ID
- Side-by-side comparison table
- Answer-first: common publisher ORCID questions
- What this means for multi-journal authors
What does ORCID integration mean inside a submission system?
ORCID integration means a submission system uses the ORCID public API (currently version 3.0) to let an author authenticate with their ORCID credentials and grant the publisher’s system read access to selected profile data. This exchange runs on OAuth 2.0: the author clicks “Connect your ORCID iD,” logs in at orcid.org, and authorises the requesting system as a Trusted Organization inside their ORCID account settings.
That distinction matters because “ORCID integration” covers at least two separate things that authors often conflate:
- Manuscript-submission linking (Editorial Manager, ScholarOne, ACS Paragon Plus, or a publisher’s own portal) — captures the iD for authorship attribution on the eventual published record.
- Database-profile linking (Scopus, Web of Science) — connects an ORCID iD to a citation-analytics author profile, which is a separate workflow from manuscript submission and uses different credentials.
Elsevier’s own support documentation, for example, treats Scopus login ORCID linking and Editorial Manager ORCID linking as two distinct help topics, each with its own authorisation flow.
Elsevier: Editorial Manager’s ORCID single sign-on
Most Elsevier journals run on Editorial Manager, developed by Aries Systems, with a smaller number of titles on the Evise platform. Elsevier’s Journal Article Publishing Support Center confirms that Editorial Manager supports ORCID single sign-on, letting authors log in with ORCID credentials rather than a separate Editorial Manager password.
ORCID’s own member registry states that “Elsevier Editorial System manuscript submission system captures an author’s ORCID iD when they submit manuscripts for publication,” and that further integration work is ongoing. Linking is generally encouraged rather than mandatory, and the requirement varies by journal editor policy. Elsevier has also extended ORCID beyond authorship: reviewer activity in Editorial Manager can be shared back to a reviewer’s ORCID record, giving peer reviewers citable recognition for review work — a feature Elsevier documents under its “recognition innovation” programme.
To unlink Elsevier from an ORCID account, authors remove “Elsevier Editorial” from the Trusted Organizations list in their ORCID account settings, not from within Editorial Manager itself.
Wiley: mandatory linking across ScholarOne and Editorial Manager
Wiley was one of ORCID’s founding sponsor organisations when the registry launched in 2012, and that early involvement shows in how deeply ORCID is embedded in its workflows. Wiley journals run across several platforms — principally ScholarOne Manuscripts (a Clarivate product) and Editorial Manager, with some using eJournalPress.
Across most Wiley journals, providing a validated ORCID iD is a mandatory step for the corresponding author at submission, not merely encouraged. Once linked, the iD auto-populates name and affiliation fields and travels with the manuscript record through peer review to the published article, where it is displayed alongside the author’s name. Wiley also supports ORCID-based single sign-on on ScholarOne, reducing the number of separate logins an author needs to manage.
Taylor & Francis and ACS: portals, Paragon Plus and ACS ID
Taylor & Francis runs most journals on ScholarOne Manuscripts, alongside a newer proprietary Submission Portal being rolled out across additional titles. ORCID linking is strongly encouraged and pre-populates author details on the Submission Portal, and the iD is displayed on the published article page on Taylor & Francis Online. However, unlike Wiley, Taylor & Francis does not universally mandate ORCID across every journal — the requirement is set at journal level.
ACS (American Chemical Society) takes a different approach again. Most ACS journals submit through ACS Paragon Plus Environment, ACS’s own peer-review platform. ACS was an early ORCID adopter and requires a validated ORCID iD from the submitting or corresponding author before a revised manuscript can proceed to publication. Critically, ACS’s primary account and login system is the separate “ACS ID,” used across ACS Publications and CAS platforms — ORCID is linked and validated as an identifier rather than replacing the login itself, which differs from the ORCID-as-sign-on model Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis all offer.
Side-by-side comparison table
The table below summarises the practical differences an author encounters when moving between systems.
| Publisher | Primary submission system(s) | ORCID requirement | Auto-population | ORCID as login? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier | Editorial Manager (some titles on Evise) | Encouraged; varies by journal | Yes — profile data | Yes, single sign-on |
| Wiley | ScholarOne Manuscripts, Editorial Manager, eJournalPress | Mandatory for corresponding author on most journals | Yes — name and affiliation | Yes, single sign-on |
| Taylor & Francis | ScholarOne Manuscripts, Submission Portal | Strongly encouraged; not universal | Yes, on Submission Portal | Yes, on Submission Portal |
| ACS | ACS Paragon Plus Environment | Required for submitting/corresponding author before publication | Limited — iD validation only | No — ACS ID is primary login |
Scopus, Elsevier’s abstract-and-citation database, is a separate case: “Scopus login ORCID” refers to connecting an ORCID iD to a Scopus Author Profile for citation-metric purposes, not to manuscript submission — the two Elsevier products handle ORCID independently of each other.
Answer-first: common publisher ORCID questions
How to link ORCID to Elsevier?
In Editorial Manager, select “Use my ORCID” at login or in profile settings, then authenticate at orcid.org and click Authorise to share your profile with Elsevier. To remove the connection later, delete “Elsevier Editorial” from the Trusted Organizations list in your ORCID account settings.
Is ORCID a publisher?
No. ORCID is a non-profit identifier registry, not a publisher. It issues persistent digital identifiers that publishers, funders and institutions — including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and ACS — use to reliably attribute research outputs to the correct individual.
How do I find my ORCID iD?
Sign in at orcid.org; your 16-digit iD appears at the top of your record, formatted as four groups of four digits. If you have never registered, creating an ORCID iD takes under a minute and can be done directly from most publisher submission systems, including Editorial Manager and ScholarOne.
What does an ORCID mean?
An ORCID iD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique 16-digit number that stays with a researcher for their career, distinguishing them from others with similar names and linking their outputs across publishers, funders and institutions in one persistent record.
What this means for multi-journal authors
An author who submits to an Elsevier journal, a Wiley journal, a Taylor & Francis journal and an ACS journal in the same year will authenticate with ORCID four separate times, under four separate policies, with four different outcomes for auto-population and login. Wiley’s mandatory-linking policy and ACS’s validation requirement mean an out-of-date or unverified ORCID iD can actively block progress at those two publishers, while Elsevier and Taylor & Francis are more forgiving.
The practical fix is the same regardless of destination: keep the ORCID record itself current — correct affiliation, current employment, and an accurate list of works — before submission, since every system pulls from that single source rather than storing its own separate copy. The same submission systems that capture ORCID iDs (Editorial Manager and ScholarOne in particular) increasingly also capture CRediT contributor roles at the same step, so keeping both an ORCID record and role disclosures current is now a routine part of preparing any manuscript for submission.
As more publishers move toward ORCID-mandatory policies at the corresponding-author level, the direction of travel is clear: ORCID is shifting from an optional convenience to a submission prerequisite, and authors who treat their ORCID record as a maintained credential — not a one-time signup — will encounter fewer friction points across Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and ACS alike.
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