There are many and ever growing reasons to create, populate and maintain an ORCiD unique researcher and contributor identifier and profile, but a barrier can be spending the time to populate your profile with your complete works, especially if they were created or published before the publisher was integrated with ORCiD. ORCiD is integrated with a number of databases, such MLA International Bibliography, Scopus and The Lens, from which you can import citations or patents. Still you may not find as many of your works in these databases as are cited by Google Scholar. Though Google Scholar is not yet integrated with ORCiD, you can export citations from your Google Scholar profile to BibTeX, and then import that file to your ORCiD profile. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions with screen shots for using this method to build out your ORCiD profile.
