1) ORCID provides persistent digital identifiers that uniquely identify researchers and enable information interoperability by connecting researchers to their works like publications and datasets.
2) Over 2 million researchers have registered for an ORCID identifier which are associated with over 6 million publications and 50 thousand organizations.
3) ORCID benefits researchers by allowing them to enter information once and have it reused across different systems, and benefits publishers, funders and universities by enabling them to automatically collect and assert author affiliations and awards.