ORCID, Inc.

non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Organization nonprofit_organization Q19861084
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Summary

ORCID, Inc. is a nonprofit organization[1]. ORCID, Inc. is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools[3], National Information Standards Organization[4], DataCite[5], Research Data Alliance[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Montgomery County[7]
  • Country: United States[8]
  • Instance of: database[9]
  • Item operated: ORCID iD[10]
  • Headquarters location: Bethesda[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Chris Shillum[12]
  • Location: Bethesda[13]
  • Website account on: Figshare[14]
  • Inception: 2010[15]
  • Coordinate location: 39.02780294413654, -77.14288231775139[16]
  • Significant event: incorporation[17]
  • Official website: https://orcid.org/[18]
  • Web feed URL: https://info.orcid.org/feed/[19]
  • Described by source: Open Science Thesaurus[20]
  • Official name: ORCID, Inc.[21]
  • Motto text: Connecting Research and Researchers[22]
  • Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization[23]
  • Official blog URL: https://info.orcid.org/category/blog/[24]
  • Different from: ORCID iD[25]
  • User manual URL: https://info.orcid.org/documentation/api-tutorials/api-tutorial-read-data-on-a-record/[26]
  • Member count: 632[27], 1240[28], 1340[29], 1387[30], 1494[31]
  • Total revenue: 6,102,191 US dollars[32], 4,805,203 US dollars[33], 5,700,522 US dollars[34], 152,694 US dollars[35], 339,638 US dollars[36], 509,251 US dollars[37], 1,119,278 US dollars[38], 4,536,445 US dollars[39], 4,201,686 US dollars[40], 3,023,297 US dollars[41], 3,581,407 US dollars[42], 4,099,155 US dollars[43], 4,720,393 US dollars[44]
  • Uses: GRID[45]
  • Total assets: 5,931,906 US dollars[46], 5,342,879 US dollars[47], 6,044,436 US dollars[48], 983,056 US dollars[49], 1,613,271 US dollars[50], 2,089,328 US dollars[51], 1,424,334 US dollars[52], 3,253,611 US dollars[53], 4,185,376 US dollars[54], 3,633,127 US dollars[55], 3,588,970 US dollars[56], 3,848,602 US dollars[57], 5,020,959 US dollars[58]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [7] ↑ . Google Maps. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . Legal Entity Identifier. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [12] ↑ . einpresswire.com. Retrieved . einpresswire.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  8. [3] ↑ . jrost.org. Retrieved . jrost.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . niso.org. Retrieved . niso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [6] ↑ . rd-alliance.org. Retrieved . rd-alliance.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . orcid.figshare.com. Retrieved . orcid.figshare.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Crunchbase. Retrieved . osti.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Google Maps. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ORCID iD. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . orcid.org. Retrieved . orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Legal Entity Identifier. Retrieved . cage.dla.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . info.orcid.org. Retrieved . info.orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . ORCID iD. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . orcid.org. Retrieved . orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  43. [45] ↑ . orcid.org. Retrieved . orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Open science thesaurus id → ND4TQ2LS-V
    Described by source → Open Science Thesaurus
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ Member count: 1,240, Changing http://web.archive.org/ URLs to https (×1). See [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_14|request for p"
  2. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Logo image → ORCID logo with tagline.svg
    Privacy policy url → https://info.orcid.org/privacy-policy/
    User manual url → https://info.orcid.org/documentation/api-tutorials/api-tutor
    Nfdi4culture id → E2022
    + 65 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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