text: **Names may**
  **change through**
  **marriage or other**
  **circumstances**
  
  **Connects individuals and**
  **their professional**
  **contributions across**
  **disciplines,**
  **organizations, and time**
  Many people have 
  the same name  People use different versions of 
  their name during their career 
  
  "Having ORCID iDs for most of our researchers has helped in providing 
  authoritative accounts in our various databases, ensuring accuracy in 
  reviewer identities, and helping editors ﬁnd reviewers and check expertise."  **Individuals use different alphabets,**
  **abbreviations, or naming conventions**
  **Helps research institutions, funders,**
  **publishers, and other organizations**
  **better track and support research work** **—Brooks Hanson, Executive Vice President, Science, American Geophysical Union**
  
  **Researchers are mobile!**
  
  For example, 
  **30% OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO GOT**
  **THEIR PhD IN THE UNITED**
  **KINGDOM NOW LIVE ELSEWHERE**
  **How Organizations and**
  **Researchers Beneﬁt**
  
  **How ORCID Works**
  
  **It's a registry of unique persistent**
  **identiﬁers for researchers**
  Source: Science Magazine 
  
  **RESEARCHERS**
  Improve recognition and 
  discoverability of their 
  research 
  
  **It's a hub that connects researchers with their**
  **professional activities and contributions**
  Research institutions and organizations therefore ﬁnd it hard to 
  
  **It's a global community that enables**
  **researchers to share their data with other**
  **individuals, organizations, and systems**
  **Benchmark their organization**
  **against others**