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ORCID

Researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding and peer-review records.

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About this source

Look up researchers by name or ORCID iD and read their public record: works, employment and education history, funding and peer-review activity. Respects each researcher’s visibility settings.

Questions you can ask ORCID

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Look up the public ORCID record for this researcher and list their works since 2020.

What comes back: Works, affiliations and funding from the public record, respecting the researcher’s visibility settings.

Which of these five co-authors have an ORCID iD?

What comes back: Matched iDs with name and current affiliation, for you to confirm.

What the assistant can do with it

The 9 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • orcid_get_profile

    Fetch a researcher's public profile from ORCID: name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, and external identifiers such as Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, and Loop profile.

  • orcid_search_researchers

    Search the ORCID registry using structured field parameters or raw Solr syntax.

  • orcid_get_works

    Retrieve works associated with an ORCID iD - publications, datasets, software, preprints, and more.

  • orcid_get_work_detail

    Fetch full detail records for 1–100 works by their put-codes in a single request.

  • orcid_get_affiliations

    Fetch affiliation records for an ORCID researcher.

  • orcid_get_funding

    Fetch funding records for an ORCID researcher: grants, contracts, awards, and salary awards.

  • orcid_get_peer_reviews

    Fetch peer review activity for an ORCID researcher: convening organizations (journals and publishers), reviewer role (reviewer, editor, chair, etc.), review type, completion dat...

  • orcid_get_research_resources

    List research resources associated with an ORCID researcher - compute allocations, equipment access, lab facilities, data resources, and clinical study registrations.

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  • orcid_resolve_researcher

    Disambiguate an author name to a verified ORCID iD.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to ORCID.

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