Wiley – first major publisher to require ORCIDs from submitting authors

John Wiley & Sons Inc. recently announced plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of Wiley journals. Read their press release here.

ORCID is an open, non-profit, and internationally recognised registry of unique researcher identifiers. It provides a method for linking your research activities and outputs using a 16-digit number to identify individual researchers in much the same way that ISBNs and DOIs identify individual books and articles. ORCID is discipline- and corporate-neutral and also interlinks other identifier systems. read more about ORCID here.