Your scholarly wallet - OpenScience

"We advise you to at least create an ORCID profile. ORCID provides a service for researchers to create unique, digital identifiers, associated with profiles in which they can claim their works. It is increasingly used by funders and publishers to identify scientists and to overcome the ambiguity of identifying people by personal names and affiliations. You can make more mileage out of your ORCID:

• It is the best place to maintain a publication list of your papers that you have written in positions in different organisations.
• If you use your ORCID in your publications, most publishers will submit this metadata to the most important search engines as an extra guarantee that your publications will be attributed to you. These attributions may be used for assessments of your group or yourself."