ORCID Rising | The Scientist Magazine®

"Name ambiguity may soon be a thing of the past, at least among members of the scientific community. Several major journal publishers and scientific societies have pledged to require submitting authors to sign up for an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID iD) number and use that number as a unique identifier. A variety of publishers—including PLOS, AAAS, IEEE, EMBO Press, eLife, The Royal Society, and the American Geophysical Union—promised to start requiring authors to provide an ORCID iD over the next year, in an open letter released today (January 7) ..."