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Adding an ORCID to a Person recordAdding an ORCID to a Person record
A Personal user (or any user with access to Person records) can add an ORCID to the Person profile. The ORCID need to be authenticated, which only can be done by the Personal user (If an ORCID integration is configured).
Prerequisites
An ORCID integration must be configured before an ORCID can be authenticated. See Configure ORCID Integration
Please follow these guidelines, based on your role, to complete the setup
Personal user
When the ORCID integration configuration is complete, any Personal user should be able to create or connect an ORCID
If this option is not available, please check the ORCID integration.
It is still possible to add an ORCID to the profile. Click on Edit profile and add the ORCID in the dedicated field. No authentication will then be possible.
When the ORCID is added to the profile it will look like this:

Upon clicking on Create or Connect your ORCID ID or Authenticate your ORCID ID, the user will be prompted to login to ORCID and authenticate.

You are highly encouraged to authenticate your ORCID ID as it gives you the following advantages:
- You will verify the ORCID ID belongs to you to ensure your profile is filled with consistent and reliable data.
- You will be able to import your data from ORCID to Pure and can enable Automated search for persons.
See also Revoke permissions for Pure to export to ORCID for information about how to stop the export.
Editor/Administrator
- If you are an Administrator, switch to the User connected to the Person that needs the ORCID ID added.
- Go to Edit Profile and you'll see: Create or Connect your ORCID ID:
Note: You'll have to create or use the Person's existing ORCID credentials to connect to ORCID. This is to ensure that the authenticator is actually in control of the data and allowed to add it to the ORCID profile. Because of this, as an Administrator, you may not be able to authenticate on behalf of the person. In most cases the User needs to set up the ORCID ID themselves by logging into Pure.
- Go to Edit Profile and you'll see: Create or Connect your ORCID ID:
- If, as an Administrator, you open up a Person editor window, then you'll see: Add existing ORCID.
- If you Add existing ORCID and save the Person, then the Person will see: Authorise export of content to ORCID, when logging in:
- If you Add existing ORCID and save the Person, then the Person will see: Authorise export of content to ORCID, when logging in:
- If ORCID is set as a synchronized field, the ORCID link will be shown on the Person if an ID is added. But a Person without an ID will have a read only (hidden) field instead of the Add existing ORCID field.
- If the field is synchronized, an Administrator cannot manually add ORCID ID on the Person content type. It must be synchronized from the source, or the field must be unlocked.
Published at November 25, 2025
