Follow the steps at Removing a duplicate ORCID iD. 

Note that publication records will NOT be merged after removing the duplicate ORCID account. Only the email address(es) will be transferred to the current ORCID account. 

No, you don’t need to create another account and we recommend you to update your existing account with PolyU email.

There is a search box at the top of the page in ORCID. Type in your name in the search box to search for your iD.

If it does not work, go to the ORCID Sign in page, click “Forgot your password or ORCID ID”, then you will be asked to enter the email address that you used for registration of your ORCID iD. A message will be sent to this email address and you can follow the steps to reset the password. Then you can sign in with your email address and new password. You will find your ORCID iD at your profile.

If you forgot the email address that you used for ORCID or you no longer have access to this email address, please contact support@orcid.org. 

At the ORCID Sign in page, click “Forgot your password or ORCID ID”, then you will be asked to enter the email address that you used when you registered for your ORCID iD. A message will be sent to this email address and you can follow the steps to reset the password. Then you can sign in with your email address/ORCID iD and new password. 

If you forgot the email address that you used for ORCID or you no longer have access to this email address, please contact support@orcid.org.

When you add the same work from different sources, for example, from Web of Science and Scopus, ORCID will group the work together in one record based on a matching of identifiers such as DOI, ISBN, etc. In cases where your publications are grouped, you can select one of the works as "Preferred source" and click on the number next to the "Preferred source" to view other versions of the work. 

​At times, similar works may not be grouped together when one of the publication records added into your ORCID is lacking an identifier or has an incorrect identifier (e.g. DOI). As a result that work will be duplicated in your ORCID account. To manage this, you can

- Select similar works and click "COMBINE" or "DELETE" to combine or remove multiple duplicates works, or
- Use "Manage similar works" function to identify and combine works when the button appears on the page, or
- Manually hide one record (by setting it to "private" mode) or delete one record (by clicking on the trash icon).

We encourage you to keep the publication record with the most information to prevent another occurrence of duplication in the future.

We recommend importing from Google Scholar profile only when the work is not indexed in Scopus, ResearcherID or other systems that allow auto-import of works to ORCID.

If your ORCID profile has already been enriched with publications from Scopus or ResearcherID, duplicates may be created when you import the same list of publications from Google Scholar. This is because records in Google Scholar usually do not have DOIs and ORCID mainly uses DOI to de-duplicate publication records every time publication information is added.

If you do have publications not indexed in Scopus, ResearcherID or other systems, you can export your entire publication list from Google Scholar profile to a BibTeX file and then selectively import them into your ORCID. Read Other Ways to Add Works to ORCID Profile > Import form BibTex - Google Scholar for details.

ORCID does not provide citation information and you cannot find data such as the number of times cited on your profile. Nevertheless, you can use your ORCID to easily search for your publications and track citations in Web of Science and Scopus (given that your works are indexed by Web of Science and Scopus, and your ORCID has integrated with Scopus).

If you register the ORCID through PolyU Library, your employment details will be automatically added to the employment field in your profile. Sometimes our system may import both the full and short form of the department name, e.g., Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies and “LMS”, to your profile.



To fix the problem, simply sign in to your ORCID account and delete the unwanted entry. Go to the employment section and click on the trash icon to remove the one you do not want.

At present, there is no automatic way to add works from ResearchGate and Academia.edu to ORCID. Nevertheless, you may import them to ORCID from other platforms such as Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, or CrossRef. The full list of platforms that work with ORCID can be found here.

Your ORCID iD is shown as “orcid.org/0000-0000-1234-1234” (under your name) on your ORCID profile. Simply copy the whole link and put it on your personal webpage or staff profile. This gives a direct link to your ORCID profile.

You can include links to a personal website, department profile, LinkedIn and other author profiles such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Academia.edu., etc. on your ORCID.

Simply click on the pencil icon next to “Websites” on your ORCID, and fill in the “Description” e.g. ResearchGate and paste the URL accordingly. The external webpages will be listed under “Websites” in your ORCID profile.

By integrating your ORCID iD with your Scopus Author ID, it raises the discoverability of your works in Scopus in a few ways:

1. Easily locate all your works in Scopus by search with your ORCID iD.
2. Scholars can easily access your works in Scopus from ORCID platform by clicking on your Scopus Author ID displayed on your ORCID profile.

ORCID has very limited control over the data sent from an external platform. Therefore, you are suggested to:

• Edit the wrong record manually in ORCID: click on (the icon next to the trash icon at the right-bottom corner) to edit the record directly, or to "make a copy and edit" the record.
• Correct “the source”: sometimes the publication information is wrong in ORCID because it is wrong in the source, such as Scopus and Web of Science, or even the journal.
  • For Scopus, you may need to request a correction through their Author Feedback Form. See How to correct your Scopus Author Profile for details. 
  • For Web of Science, go to Customer Feedback & Support and Request a Data Change.
  • In the case of a journal, contact the publisher or journal editor directly to request a correction.

Yes. You could log in to your Google Scholar profile, export your works in BibTeX format and then import the BibTeX into your ORCID. We suggest that you do this only for publications that are not indexed in Scopus, Web of Science and other systems that allow auto-import of works to ORCID. Read Other Ways to Add Works to ORCID Profile > Import form BibTex - Google Scholar for details.

ORCID is not designed to let you upload the full text of work, but you can find the URL and DOI of your work in your profile. The URL and DOI provide external links to your publication on the publisher’s website, and thus, there should not be any copyright issue.

You can select how open you would like your ORCID profile/record to be as ORCID provides you three settings: Public, Trusted Parties and Private. For more, read ORCID Privacy Settings.

After logging in to your ORCID account, go to the Account Settings page, the permissions that you have granted previously are listed under “Trusted Organizations”.

Yes, you can revoke permissions you have previously granted. After logging in to your ORCID account, go to the Account Settings page, and click the trash icon next to the item you wish to revoke.

Sure. Please contact us if you would like to grant permission to PolyU Library again.