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ScholarOne Login with ORCID: 4 Platforms Compared

ScholarOne login with ORCID means authenticating into a ScholarOne Manuscripts submission site using an ORCID iD instead of a separate username and password, then authorising a one-time link between the two accounts. Once linked, the author can sign back in with ORCID credentials on future submissions. Wiley, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis offer the same underlying capability, but the entry point, terminology and re-authorisation behaviour differ enough to trip up authors moving between journals.

ORCID is a non-proprietary, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes individual researchers and links them to their research outputs, funding and affiliations across systems. At manuscript submission, publisher platforms use ORCID’s OAuth-based sign-in to confirm an author’s identity and pre-fill profile data rather than requiring a new account for every journal.

What is ORCID single sign-on at manuscript submission?
ScholarOne vs Wiley vs Elsevier vs Taylor & Francis: how the ORCID flow differs
Common friction points authors encounter
Answer-first Q&A: what authors ask most
What this means for institutions, publishers and authors

What is ORCID single sign-on at manuscript submission?

ORCID single sign-on (SSO) lets an author authenticate to a publisher’s submission system through ORCID’s own login page rather than a journal-specific account. The publisher’s system redirects the browser to orcid.org, the author signs in or registers, and — on first use — authorises the publisher to read limited profile data such as name, affiliation and existing works. That authorisation is stored as a token linking the two accounts, so subsequent logins can be completed with one click.

The mechanism is consistent industry-wide because it relies on the same OAuth 2.0 protocol ORCID exposes to all integrated systems. What differs is where the option appears, what the submission system is called, and how often re-authorisation is required — where ScholarOne, Wiley, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis genuinely diverge.

ScholarOne vs Wiley vs Elsevier vs Taylor & Francis: how the ORCID flow differs

The table below summarises the practical differences an author will notice when using each platform’s ORCID sign-in.

Platform	Submission system	Where ORCID sign-in appears	Re-authorisation behaviour
ScholarOne	ScholarOne Manuscripts (Clarivate)	“Log In With ORCID iD” link below the standard username/password fields	One-time link per journal site; legacy credentials remain usable in parallel
Wiley	Research Exchange, built on Wiley’s CONNECT identity layer	ORCID option on the Research Exchange login screen, or linked via account settings	Linked once to the central CONNECT identity, reused across Wiley journals
Elsevier	Editorial Manager (developed by Aries Systems)	ORCID icon on the Editorial Manager login page	Requires the existing Editorial Manager username/password once, per EM instance, to confirm the link
Taylor & Francis	Submission Portal for centrally migrated titles; legacy ScholarOne or Editorial Manager for others	ORCID sign-in on the Submission Portal, or ORCID linking inside legacy ScholarOne/EM accounts	Inconsistent — depends entirely on which system the individual journal still uses

ScholarOne: link once, reuse across journals on the same instance

In ScholarOne Manuscripts, authors click “Log In With ORCID iD,” authenticate at orcid.org, and authorise the connection once. The ORCID iD is then stored against the ScholarOne profile alongside the original login credentials — nothing is deleted. The link is scoped to that journal’s ScholarOne site, not shared automatically across every publisher using ScholarOne.

Wiley: identity sits at the CONNECT layer, not the journal

Wiley’s Research Exchange submission service authenticates through Wiley’s central CONNECT account rather than a per-journal login. An ORCID iD linked once to CONNECT works across any Wiley journal using Research Exchange, reducing repeat linking versus ScholarOne’s per-site model — though a CONNECT account problem can affect several Wiley titles at once.

Elsevier: Editorial Manager confirms with existing credentials first

Editorial Manager asks authors to enter their existing EM username and password once, alongside the ORCID authorisation, to confirm both identities belong to the same person. After that, sign-in is single-click provided the author is already signed in to ORCID in the same browser session — a detail that catches out authors submitting from a different device than the one originally used to link the accounts.

Taylor & Francis and the Scopus confusion

Taylor & Francis has no single unified submission system: many journals run on its own Submission Portal, but a substantial number still use ScholarOne Manuscripts or Editorial Manager, inherited from legacy imprints and society agreements. The ORCID flow an author sees depends on which system that specific journal runs, not on Taylor & Francis as a brand.

A frequently conflated case is Scopus. Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract-and-citation database, not a manuscript submission system. Linking an ORCID iD inside Scopus claims and disambiguates an author profile against Scopus’s own Author ID — it has no bearing on ORCID sign-in at Editorial Manager or any other submission portal. Authors searching “scopus orcid login” expecting a submission credential are looking for the wrong system entirely.

Common friction points authors encounter

Across all four platforms, the same handful of problems recur regardless of which submission system a journal uses.

Per-journal, not per-publisher, linking: ScholarOne and Editorial Manager links are usually scoped to one journal’s instance, so authors submitting to several titles from the same publisher may repeat the ORCID authorisation each time.
Session expiry mid-submission: if the ORCID session times out before the redirect completes, authors can lose in-progress form data and must restart the linking step.
Duplicate ORCID records: an author registered separately through institutional SSO and a personal email ends up with two ORCID iDs, and links the wrong one to a given journal account.
Name-matching mismatches: a legacy account created under a maiden name, middle initial, or transliterated spelling will not auto-match the ORCID record’s display name.
Mistaking Scopus linking for submission sign-in: an Elsevier-specific but common error that sends authors to the wrong support page entirely.

The ICMJE Recommendations state that journals should require ORCID iDs for corresponding authors at submission, which is precisely why publishers have invested in SSO rather than leaving ORCID linking as an optional afterthought.

Answer-first Q&A: what authors ask most

How to link ORCID to ScholarOne account?

Log in to the journal’s ScholarOne site, click your name at the top of the screen, select “E-mail/Name,” then choose “Associate your existing ORCID iD” in the ORCID section. This redirects to orcid.org to sign in and authorise the connection, after which the iD is stored against the ScholarOne profile permanently.

Use the journal-specific ScholarOne Manuscripts URL, then either enter existing username and password credentials or select “Log In With ORCID iD” beneath the standard login boxes. First-time ORCID users authorise the link at orcid.org; returning users are signed in automatically once authorised.

On the ORCID sign-in page, enter an email address associated with the account, the full 16-digit ORCID iD as a URL, or just the 16-digit number, along with the account password. Institutional or social-media sign-in options are also available where an account was originally created through one of those routes.

How do I link my ORCID iD?

From within a publisher account’s profile or settings page, select the option to associate an existing ORCID iD (wording varies by platform — “Email/Name” in ScholarOne, account settings in CONNECT, profile linking in Editorial Manager). Each route redirects to ORCID for sign-in and a one-time authorisation before returning to the publisher system.

What this means for institutions, publishers and authors

For research offices supporting authors through submission, the guidance is straightforward: check which submission system a target journal actually uses before assuming one ORCID link carries across every title from that publisher. ScholarOne and Editorial Manager links are typically journal-specific; Wiley’s CONNECT-based linking is the exception in being reusable across its own portfolio.

Correct ORCID linking also underpins downstream attribution. Many ScholarOne and Editorial Manager instances now capture CRediT contributor roles alongside author details at submission, and a correctly linked ORCID iD ensures those role attributions resolve to the right individual rather than a duplicate or orphaned record. CASRAI originated the CRediT contributor role taxonomy in 2014; the standard is now stewarded by NISO as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022, and accurate identifier linking at submission is what keeps that role data usable downstream.

As journals consolidate onto centralised portals — Wiley’s Research Exchange and Taylor & Francis’s Submission Portal being the clearest examples — the per-journal friction above should gradually reduce. Until then, authors and research-support staff should expect the ORCID experience to vary by system, not by publisher brand.

July 3, 2026

ORCID Information at Elsevier Submission: How Publishers Verify Authors

Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis now authenticate authors’ ORCID iDs directly inside their manuscript submission platforms — Editorial Manager and ScholarOne Manuscripts — using ORCID’s own OAuth login rather than a free-text field, so the iD attached to a manuscript is cryptographically verified, not merely typed in.

An ORCID iD is a free, persistent 16-character digital identifier, formatted as four groups of four digits (for example 0000-0002-1825-0097), that uniquely and permanently distinguishes a researcher across publications, grants, peer review and institutional systems.

For editorial offices, ORCID information in an Elsevier submission means exactly this authenticated identifier pulled live from ORCID’s registry during login — not a self-reported number a corresponding author could mistype, reuse from a colleague, or fabricate. The same authentication model, with platform-specific variations, now runs across the manuscript-submission systems used by most major scholarly publishers.

What is ORCID information at manuscript submission?

ORCID information at submission is the authenticated iD, plus whatever profile fields the author has chosen to make public, that a submission system retrieves through a live handshake with the ORCID registry. The process uses three-legged OAuth 2.0: the author is redirected to orcid.org, logs in with their own ORCID credentials, and explicitly authorises the publisher’s system to read (and, in some workflows, update) their record.

Because the connection is authenticated rather than typed, the submission system stores a verified link, not a claim. This distinguishes ORCID data from most other manuscript metadata, which is still self-reported by authors at submission.

How does Elsevier’s Editorial Manager verify ORCID iDs?

Elsevier’s journals run on Editorial Manager, a platform built by Aries Systems and used across thousands of journals from multiple publishers, not Elsevier alone. Authors can register for or log into Editorial Manager using their ORCID credentials via a “Use my ORCID” single sign-on option, which authenticates the iD automatically and populates the submitting author’s profile.

Editorial Manager also supports optional co-author verification: each listed co-author can receive an email asking them to confirm authorship and link their own ORCID iD to the manuscript record, rather than the corresponding author entering identifiers on their behalf. Several ScienceDirect journals now state in their guides for authors that an ORCID iD is required, or strongly encouraged, for every listed author at submission.

How do Wiley and Taylor & Francis use ScholarOne for ORCID authentication?

Wiley and a large share of Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals run on ScholarOne Manuscripts, a submission platform owned by Clarivate. Authors connect ORCID from their account settings — under the “Email/Name” section — where they can either register for a new ORCID iD or associate an existing one via ORCID’s authentication window. ScholarOne also supports ORCID single sign-on, so returning authors can log in with their ORCID credentials instead of a separate ScholarOne password.

Some Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals additionally run on Editorial Manager, where the same “edit my account” ORCID linking process applies. Once linked, the author’s ORCID iD is attached to the manuscript record and, on acceptance, published on the first page of the article.

Other major publishers follow comparable patterns. The American Chemical Society requires corresponding authors to supply a validated ORCID iD in its ACS Paragon Plus submission environment, a policy ACS extended to new submissions from January 2020.

Publisher(s)	Submission platform	Platform vendor	ORCID login method	Typical policy
Elsevier and journal partners	Editorial Manager	Aries Systems	ORCID single sign-on + account link	Required or encouraged, journal-dependent
Wiley	ScholarOne Manuscripts	Clarivate	Account-settings link + ORCID SSO	Encouraged; required by some journals
Taylor & Francis / Routledge	ScholarOne Manuscripts or Editorial Manager	Clarivate / Aries Systems	Account-settings link, platform-dependent	Encouraged; trialled as required on select titles
American Chemical Society	ACS Paragon Plus	ACS (ScholarOne-derived)	Validated iD at account setup	Required for corresponding authors since Jan 2020

Why are journals mandating ORCID, and what should editorial offices check?

Journals are moving from encouraging to requiring ORCID because a typed name field cannot resolve author-name ambiguity, cannot survive institutional affiliation changes, and cannot be checked automatically against prior submissions or peer-review history. An authenticated ORCID iD solves all three at the point of submission, which is why the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommends that journals require an ORCID iD from the corresponding author, at minimum, and encourage one from every listed author.

A configuration detail that most publisher-support pages omit: ORCID’s Works API has, since 2022, supported structured contributor-role data aligned to the CRediT taxonomy, so an authenticated ORCID connection at submission can carry role information forward, not just identity. CASRAI originated the CRediT contributor role taxonomy in 2014; the standard is now stewarded by NISO as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022. Editorial offices configuring CRediT role collection alongside ORCID authentication should confirm their submission system passes both together, since the two are commonly configured as separate, disconnected steps.

Editorial offices configuring or auditing an integration should check the following:

Whether the system requires ORCID for the corresponding author only, or for every listed author, and whether that policy is stated in the journal’s guide for authors.
Whether co-author ORCID verification is enabled, and whether unverified co-authors block submission or merely trigger a reminder email.
Whether the ORCID connection is refreshed at each submission or persists as a stored token that could go stale after an author changes their trusted-organisation permissions on orcid.org.
Whether authorship and contributor-role fields are captured through the same authenticated step as the ORCID iD, or as a separate, unverified free-text field.
Whether the journal’s guide for authors and its submission-system configuration state the same policy — mismatches between “encouraged” copy and “required” system logic are a common source of author complaints.

Frequently asked questions

What is ORCID information in an Elsevier submission?

It is the authenticated ORCID iD and associated profile data retrieved directly from the ORCID registry when an author logs into Editorial Manager via ORCID single sign-on. It is verified at source, not a self-typed identifier the author enters manually.

How do I link my ORCID iD to Elsevier’s Editorial Manager?

In Editorial Manager, open “Edit My Account,” locate the ORCID field, and select the option to register for a new iD or connect an existing one. The author is redirected to ORCID.org to log in and authorise the connection before returning to Editorial Manager.

How do I get an ORCID iD?

Registration is free at orcid.org and takes under a minute: an author supplies their name and email, sets a password, and chooses a visibility setting. The 16-digit iD is issued immediately and can then be linked to any submission system.

Do journals require an ORCID iD to submit a manuscript?

Requirements vary by journal rather than by publisher as a whole. Many titles require a validated ORCID iD from the corresponding author and encourage one from co-authors, while a smaller but growing number, including several ACS journals, mandate it for every listed author.

Implications for research integrity

Authenticated ORCID connections give editorial offices something a typed name field never could: a machine-checkable link between a manuscript, an author’s verified publication history, and — where CRediT roles are also captured — their specific contribution. That combination is what underpins reliable retraction tracking, funder compliance reporting, and cross-publisher author disambiguation.

As more submission systems tie ORCID authentication to mandatory fields rather than optional ones, the practical risk shifts from author identity fraud toward configuration drift: journals whose stated policy and system logic diverge, or whose co-author verification is enabled but silently ignored. Editorial offices that audit their integration against the checklist above close that gap before it produces a correction, not after.