What is ORCID?
ORCID® is a global registry of author and researcher identifiers established by an international collaboration of publishers, researchers, research institutions, and funders. The purpose of ORCID is to allow researchers and contributors to academic publications to create for themselves a unique, lifelong ORCID identifier. The adoption of ORCID iDs throughout the research, funding, and publishing life cycle will bring significant benefits – simplifying research workflows, resolving name ambiguity, and ensuring correct attribution of research and other activities.

How authors and researchers get ORCID iDs
Any author or researcher can go to ORCID and create an ORCID iD for themselves for free.

Journal submission systems
Submission system of TMR Publishing Group is integrated with ORCID both at log in and through author provided information. ORCID is an optional field which the submitting author can fill in. Existing authors can also add an ORCID iD to their account. The submission system connects with the ORCID database to allow the author to sign in, thereby confirming their identity and validating the ORCID iD.

Display of ORCID iDs 
As ORCID identifiers are collected, they are included in the source XML data for articles and displayed online, both in the HTML and PDF versions of the manuscript, in compliance with recommended practice issued by ORCID.