SciX and ORCiD

Last updated on 2025-05-03 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 20 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • How do I ensure that all my papers are attached to my ORCiD?

Objectives

  • Claim an article using an Open Researcher and Contributor Identification (ORCiD), a unique persistent digital identifier for researchers

SciX and ORCiD

In this lesson we are going to be talking about how SciX integrates ORCiD. Hopefully you already have an ORCiD for yourself, and an understanding of ORCiD or have reviewed the Library Carpentries Lesson “Open Research and Contributor IDs (ORCID) for Librarians.” https://firbolg.github.io/LC_ORCID/

Setting Up Your Environment

When you open SciX, ensure you can see the homepage.

Screenshot of the SciX homepage

Ask learners: “Can everyone see the SciX homepage on their browser?”

ADS & SciX

Before we get too far, I want to remind everyone that NASA’s Science Explorer is an expanded and updated indexing and abstracting service that is being developed by the same team that created the NASA Astrophysics Data System. A lot of SciX’s functionality is borrowed from ADS, so you will sometimes see ADS branding even though we are looking at SciX, for the purposes of this lesson you can consider SciX and ADS to be interchangeable.

ORCiD & SciX

Many researchers and authors today are claiming ORCiDs to help disambiguate themselves from others who share their name. SciX lets you search for published content using an ORCiD, just write “orcid:” before the ID in the query field. For example:

orcid:0000-0002-6949-0090

Screenshot of a search for an ORCiD.

The ORCiD identifiers attached to a paper can come from the publisher, if that information is provided by the authors when submitting the paper.

However SciX also lets you claim papers for your ORCiD, which is especially useful if the papers pre-date the ORCiD system or if you know that the publisher did not have a way to collect that information when you originally submitted the paper. SciX shares these claimed papers back to ORCiD so that they can show up on your profile there.

In order to claim a paper for your ORCiD in SciX, you need to first log into SciX, or create an account if you do not have one yet. Once logged in, use the ORCiD menu option at the top of the screen to log into ORCiD and claim papers in ADS.

Screenshot of the ORCiD sign in option in SciX.

Once you are logged into both via SciX, make sure ORCiD mode is turned on…

Screenshot of the ORCiD menu in SciX.

Then search through SciX for your papers and click the “Claim” button to the right of each article that is yours. If any are erroneously marked, you can click the “Delete Claim” button to remove your claim on the article.

Screenshot show the buttons for claim and delete claim in SciX.

Visiting “My ORCiD Page” will bring you to a dashboard of all of your claimed articles, where you can push them to sync with ORCiD and make other edits.

Reflection and Discussion

In small groups, review ORCiD mode and SciX’s “My ORCiD Page,” jot down any questions for the larger group. If you have publications in SciX, check to see if they are already claimed in ORCiD, and if not, claim them and work with group mates to walk through the process. Report back any discussion/questions to the class.