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ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique identifier assigned to a researcher. Many journals now require authors to have an ORCID. A researcher will have the same ORCID even if different journals style their name differently (or their name changes) and different researchers with the same name will have different ORCIDs.
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