🔬 ORCID Researcher Profile Scraper

Academic hiring teams, research agencies, and science publishers all need clean researcher data. This tool pulls structured profiles from the global ORCID registry - names, institutions, emails, and identifiers - so you can build contact lists, verify authors, or map research communities.

The ORCID Scraper collects academic researcher profiles with ORCID IDs, names, institutions, emails, and public profile URLs. Search by keyword, institution, or direct ORCID ID lookup.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🧑‍🔬 Researcher profiles - given names, family names, credit names, and alternate names
• 🆔 ORCID identifiers - the 16-digit ID that uniquely identifies every registered researcher
• 🏛️ Institutions - affiliations with universities, research labs, and companies
• 📧 Public emails - contact addresses when the researcher has made them public
• 🔍 Powerful search - query by keyword, name, or full affiliation name
• 🔗 Direct lookup - fetch a specific researcher by ORCID ID

🔧 Input

• Search Query - keyword or ORCID query syntax (e.g. machine learning, given-names:John AND family-name:Smith)
• Institution - filter by institution name (e.g. Stanford, MIT, Oxford)
• ORCID ID - look up one researcher directly (e.g. 0000-0001-2345-6789)
• Max Items - free users get 10 records, paid users up to 1,000,000

{
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "maxItems": 200
}

📊 Output

Each researcher record includes ID, name, affiliation, and contact fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
🆔 orcidId	16-digit ORCID identifier
👤 givenNames	First/given name
👤 familyNames	Last/family name
📝 creditName	How the researcher prefers to be cited
🏛️ institutions	Affiliated universities or organizations
📧 emails	Public email addresses
🔗 profileUrl	Public ORCID profile page

{
    "orcidId": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
    "givenNames": "Josiah",
    "familyNames": "Carberry",
    "creditName": "J. Carberry",
    "otherNames": ["Josiah S. Carberry"],
    "emails": ["j.carberry@example.edu"],
    "institutions": ["Brown University", "Wesleyan University"],
    "profileUrl": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the ORCID Researcher Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual ORCID Search
Bulk profile collection	✅ Up to 1M records	❌ Page-by-page
Keyword + institution filters	✅ Combined	⚠️ Limited UI
Direct ID lookup	✅ Instant	✅ Yes
Email + institution capture	✅ Structured	⚠️ Buried in profile
Export to JSON/CSV/Excel	✅ Yes	❌ Not supported
Scheduled monitoring	✅ Daily/weekly	❌ Not possible

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - set your search query, institution filter, or ORCID ID
3. Run It - click Start and get researcher records in seconds

No coding, no manual profile clicking.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🎓 Academic recruiting - build candidate lists for faculty positions by research area
• 📚 Publisher outreach - identify authors in a specific field for peer review or editorial invites
• 🔬 Grant programs - find potential reviewers and awardees by keyword or institution
• 📊 Bibliometric research - map researcher communities across disciplines and institutions
• 🏛️ University rankings - count active researchers at an institution for ranking studies
• 🤝 Partnership discovery - find collaborators who share your research focus

❓ FAQ

🧑‍🔬 What is ORCID? ORCID is a nonprofit that issues unique identifiers to researchers worldwide, helping to disambiguate authors with the same name and link them to their work.

🔍 How do ORCID search queries work? You can use free text (e.g. climate change) or structured fields like given-names:, family-name:, affiliation-org-name:. See the ORCID documentation for the full syntax.

📧 Will I always get an email? No. Researchers can choose whether to make emails public. Many do not, so the emails field can be empty.

🆔 How do I look up one specific researcher? Paste their ORCID ID (the 16-digit code from their profile URL) into the orcidId field. This overrides the search query.

🌍 Does it cover international researchers? Yes. ORCID has millions of registered researchers worldwide across every discipline.

🔗 Integrate ORCID Researcher Scraper with any app

• Make - automate researcher contact imports
• Zapier - push new profiles into your CRM
• Slack - share recruiting shortlists with your team
• Google Sheets - build talent spreadsheets
• Webhooks - trigger workflows on completion

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ORCID or any university. It collects only publicly available researcher profile data that users have chosen to share.