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Institutional & Persistent Identifiers

By using author and institutional identifiers (ID=Institutional Identifier or PI=Persistent Identifier), the TU Chemnitz can continuously improve the worldwide visibility of the research achievements of its scientists and thus automatically optimize its "impact". In addition, IDs ensure that all works published by members of the TU Chemnitz can be correctly assigned to the correct authors and to their own institution.
As a rule, at least one TU Chemnitz ID must be provided during the publication submission process.

What does ORCID mean?

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a non-profit-organization assigning unique individual identification numbers (ORCID IDs) to authors. In an individual ORCID-profile, all information regarding publications, research data and CV may be compiled. ORCID IDs are an international standard for the assignment of scholars to their research outcome.

Data protection is of particular significance for ORCID. The decision on which information is accessible to the public on their profile belongs exclusively to the scholars themselves. Solely the name and the ORCID-ID are always available for the public.

Which are the benefits of an ORCID iD?

  • Clear identification of the person (also in cases of same names, change of names or different spellings)
  • Simplified communication with publishers and research funding organizations – frequently, the indication of an ORCID is mandatory
  • Unambiguous assignment of academic CV to the individual research outcome (e.g. publications, research data, software)
  • In case of consent, your list of publications will be synchronized with your ResearcherID and Scopus and complemented automatically by new publications via Crossref and Datacite.

In case you have not an ORCID iD yet:

  1. Simple registration at ORCID
  2. Follow the link Register now and enter your first name, name and email-address there. After having done this, you have got your ORCID iD. Now, you may – if you want – link your profile to your academic outcome.
  3. Select on your new ORCID-profile +Add works – Search & link.
  4. You will see a list of ORCID-partners via whom you may search for your publications. In case you do not know exactly, you may simply start with “CrossRef Metadata Search”. CrossRef administrates DOIs for publishers so that you will very probably find the data of your articles in journals there.
  5. Entitle Crossref for access to your ORCID-profile.
  6. You get a list of publications with your (sur)names. Confirm your own publications by Add to Orcid.
  7. Done!

Since November 2021, Chemnitz University of Technology is the 76th funding member of the ORCID-DE-Consortium and contributes to the financing of this global service..

Chemnitz University of Technology currently has two ORCID-integrations: Open Journal Systems and ViVo (in progress).

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is operated non-profit and currently provides in particular a publicly-accessible index of official affiliation designations of scientific institutions and their corresponding identifiers (GRID, ISNI, Crossref Open Funder ID, Wikidata-entry). You may search for entries via the ROR-website by accessing identifier: https://ror.org/00a208s56.

The Global Research Identifier Database provides datasets and identifiers of institutions world-wide: a GRID ID is determined for each institution and linked to other IDs and datasets (e.g. ISNI, Crossref, Wikipedia, Wikidata). The company Digital Science, which has developed GRID, will continue to maintain and update GRID internally. You may search for institutions and research funding organizations via Explore Institutes by the identifier: grid.6810.f. The ROR-database is based on the GRID-database.

The Ringgold Identifier is a unique numeric indicator for all institutions contributing to the academic publication process. It enables the assignment of an academic paper to an institution (identifier of Chemnitz University of Technology: Ringgold ID 38869) independent from possible variations of designations, abbreviations, designations in other languages or vowel mutations.

Contact person

Portrait: Davide Del Duca
Davide Del Duca
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    Straße der Nationen 33, 09111 Chemnitz
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    A01.340