ORCID Researcher Profile Scraper

Search and extract researcher profiles from ORCID — the world's largest open researcher ID registry with 18M+ profiles. Get names, bios, publications, employment, education, and funding. No API key needed.

Features

• 👤 18M+ researcher profiles — the global standard for researcher identification
• 📚 Publications — titles, types, years, journals, DOIs
• 🏢 Employment history — organizations, roles, departments, dates
• 🎓 Education — institutions, degrees, departments
• 💰 Funding — grants, funders, dates
• 🔑 Keywords & websites — research interests and personal pages
• 🔍 Search — by name, affiliation, topic, or any keyword
• ⚡ Public API — no authentication required

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Search by keyword/name/affiliation
orcidIds	string[]	[]	Fetch specific ORCID profiles
maxResults	number	20	Max profiles per query
includeWorks	boolean	true	Include publications
maxWorks	number	50	Max publications per profile
includeEmployment	boolean	true	Include jobs
includeEducation	boolean	true	Include education
includeFunding	boolean	false	Include grants

Example

{
  "searchQueries": ["deep learning Stanford"],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "includeWorks": true,
  "maxWorks": 20,
  "includeEmployment": true
}

Output

{
  "orcidId": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
  "fullName": "Josiah Carberry",
  "biography": "Professor of Psychoceramics...",
  "keywords": ["psychoceramics", "cracked pots"],
  "publicationCount": 42,
  "publications": [{"title": "...", "year": "2024", "doi": "10.1234/..."}],
  "employment": [{"organization": "Brown University", "role": "Professor"}],
  "education": [{"organization": "MIT", "role": "PhD"}]
}

Use Cases

• Academic recruiting — find researchers by expertise and institution
• Collaboration discovery — identify potential research partners
• Bibliometric analysis — study publication patterns across fields
• Grant monitoring — track funded research and funding trends
• Institutional reporting — aggregate researcher outputs