The Orcid System [From the editor-in-chief].

For those authors who have submitted papers recently, you may have noticed some changes in our submission process. As of July 1, IEEE now requires that all authors provide an ORCID at submission. ORCID is short for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, and it serves as a unique identifying number for a researcher so that the various electronic archives can properly attribute authorship of papers to the correct people. This can be thought of as a government identification number that persists for one?s lifetime (like a social security number in the US). It is being put in place to solve the entity resolution problem. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]