By the end of 2013 ORCID had 111 member organizations and over 460,000 registrants. As of 30 मई 2014, the number of registrants was 727,454. The organizational members include many publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Nature Publishing Group. Others are research institutions (among them Caltech and Cornell University), commercial companies including Thomson Reuters, academic societies and a charitable foundation, the Wellcome Trust.

In June 2014, ORCID announced that it had appointed Andy Mabbett as its Wikipedian in Residence.

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