Orcid

The ORCID icon represents the globally adopted persistent identifier system for researchers, providing unique 16-digit IDs that distinguish individual researchers and connect them with their scholarly contributions. This symbol identifies the nonprofit registry used by millions of researchers worldwide to maintain accurate attribution across name changes, institutional affiliations, and collaboration networks. The ORCID iD has become essential infrastructure for modern research workflows and publication systems.

In manuscript submission workflows, authors provide ORCID iDs to journals for automatic attribution and profile integration. University research information systems pull publication lists from ORCID profiles for faculty reporting, while funding agencies like NIH require ORCID iDs for grant applications ensuring accurate researcher tracking. Publishers auto-populate author affiliations from ORCID, while researchers update single ORCID profiles rather than maintaining separate accounts across hundreds of journals and databases.

From a scholarly infrastructure perspective, this icon signifies more than just identification - it represents solutions to author name ambiguity plaguing citation systems, enables comprehensive tracking of research contributions across career transitions, and provides researcher control over scholarly identity. This distinction helps users recognize ORCID as foundational infrastructure for accurate research attribution and discovery.

Orcid is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds OrcidIcon to components/icons/academicons-orcid.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed OrcidIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Orcid icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 512 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Orcid", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. OrcidIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <OrcidIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

6 other libraries draw an icon called Orcid. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are profile, authentication, identifier and author. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Orcid in another set.