ORCIDs in the Wild: A Field Guide to the Popular Persistent Identifier – UK ORCID Support

"The ORCID iD personal persistent identifier is the de facto way to identify a person in the scholarly community. In general it is a robust and well implemented way to collect the narrative of participants in the research landscape, despite some atypical use when an individual registers more than one ID simply for convenience, or one ORCID ID is shared by several. Recently ORCID published a blog post to introduce the concept of “trust markers” in an ORCID record. In it they outlined how users of ORCID data can determine for themselves which kinds of data in an ORCID record they consider to be trust markers for their specific use case."