ORCID is a persistent author identifier for connecting research and researchers.

Example Response

{
  "message-version": "1.1",
  "orcid-search-results": {
    "orcid-search-result": [
      {
        "relevancy-score": {
          "value": 0.7290998
        },
        "orcid-profile": {
          "orcid": null,
          "orcid-identifier": {
            "value": null,
            "uri": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0159-2197",
            "path": "0000-0002-0159-2197",
            "host": "orcid.org"
          },
          "orcid-bio": {
            "personal-details": {
              "given-names": {
                "value": "Jonathan A."
              },
              "family-name": {
                "value": "Eisen"
              }
            },
            "biography": {
              "value": "",
              "visibility": null
            },
            "researcher-urls": {
              "researcher-url": [
                {
                  "url-name": {
                    "value": "microBEnet"
                  },
                  "url": {
                    "value": "http://microBE.net"
                  }
                },
                {
                  "url-name": {
                    "value": "Tree of Life Blog"
                  },
                  "url": {
                    "value": "http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com"
                  }
                },
                {
                  "url-name": {
                    "value": "Lab Page"
                  },
                  "url": {
                    "value": "http://phylogenomics.wordpress.com"
                  }
                },
                {
                  "url-name": {
                    "value": "Twitter"
                  },
                  "url": {
                    "value": "http://twitter.com/phylogenomics"
                  }
                }
              ],
              "visibility": null
            },
            "keywords": {
              "keyword": [
                {
                  "value": "evolution, genomics, microbiology, ecology, microbial diversity, citizen science, "
                }
              ],
              "visibility": null
            },
            "external-identifiers": {
              "external-identifier": [
                {
                  "external-id-common-name": {
                    "value": "Scopus Author ID"
                  },
                  "external-id-reference": {
                    "value": "35247902700"
                  },
                  "external-id-url": {
                    "value": "http://www.scopus.com/inward/authorDetails.url?authorID=35247902700&partnerID=MN8TOARS"
                  },
                  "external-id-source": {
                    "value": null,
                    "uri": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-8983",
                    "path": "0000-0002-5982-8983",
                    "host": "orcid.org"
                  }
                }
              ],
              "visibility": null
            },
            "delegation": null,
            "applications": null,
            "scope": null
          },
          "type": null,
          "group-type": null,
          "client-type": null
        }
      }
    ],
    "num-found": 1
  }
}

Source Code

The source code is available here.

Further Documentation

• Searching with the ORCID API