Claiming Papers And Finding People with ORCID

"If you have published a paper recently, you have probably come across the acronym ORCID at some point during the article submission process.  Or you may have seen references to ORCID in your organization’s scientific staff database, AAS membership profile, or research evaluation process.  So what exactly is ORCID?  ORCID is an acronym which stands for 'Open Researcher and Contributor ID,' designed to uniquely identify people involved in research activities.  The term is used to refer to both the identifier standard (a 16-character string) as well as the organization which creates these IDs and maintains their registry. For researchers, ORCID identifiers are useful in a couple of ways: they provide a unique way to identify you as an individual, removing ambiguity among people who have similar names they provide a global identifier recognized by an increasingly large number of organizations, including publishers, funding agencies, and information systems Getting your ORCID is simple!  All you have to do is go to the ORCID website and register to obtain a unique identifier which you can use immediately.  My own id is 0000-0002-4110-3511, and I have used it in my arXiv user profile, my AAS membership profile, my Elsevier profile, my Zenodo account, and during the submission of a few papers I published recently ..."