ORCID and DataCite Supercharge Your Research Visibility

This is a cross-post from the ORCID blog.

If you missed our recent deep-dive with DataCite during International Love Data Week, don't worry! We've got the highlights for you.

In an era where Open Science and new ways of research assessment encourage researchers to share outputs beyond textual publications, the way they connect these outputs matters more than ever. Elevating your Research's Impact and Visibility with ORCID and DataCite focused on making researchers' professional lives easier and helping them achieve a higher impact from their outputs.

The big takeaways

The "Set It and Forget It" workflow

If you've ever dreamed of a self-updating CV, you can make it a reality using DataCite-ORCID auto-update functionality. When you use your ORCID iD during a data submission via a DataCite member repository and grant permissions to DataCite in DataCite Profiles, that work can automatically appear on your ORCID record. This means you can spend less time on manual entry and more time on actual research.

Credit for everything, not just articles

DataCite DOIs allow you to get formal recognition, among others, for:

• Unique datasets
• Custom software and code
• Images, posters, and even physical samples

By linking these to your ORCID iD, you create a "PID Graph"—a digital map that shows the full scope of your contribution to science.

For a deeper dive, watch the recording and download the slides:
1. Importing Data From Other Systems;
2. Set-Up the ORCID Auto-Update;
3. Seeing your data's impact: persistent identifiers in use.

In the recording, you'll get a visual breakdown of how a single DOI can trigger a chain reaction of discovery across global databases, as well as a walk-through of the specific settings you need to toggle to ensure your data and your profile are connected. To quickly set up your DataCite auto-updates, visit our documentation in the ORCID Knowledge Base.

For more from International Love Data Week, read our blog, A Day in the Life of ORCID Data, which tracks the hypothetical journey of a researcher's ORCID record data.