diff --git a/physionet-django/user/validators.py b/physionet-django/user/validators.py
index a73b067f7..564095b94 100644
--- a/physionet-django/user/validators.py
+++ b/physionet-django/user/validators.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 import re
+import requests
+import jwt
+import json
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth.validators import UnicodeUsernameValidator
@@ -216,6 +219,36 @@ def validate_orcid_token(value):
     if not re.fullmatch(r'^[a-z0-9]{8}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{12}$', value):
         raise ValidationError('ORCID token is not in expected format.')
 
+def validate_orcid_id_token(token):
+    """
+    When openid scope is enabled then ORCID returns
+    access_token and signed id_token, this function validates id_token signature
+    """
+
+    jwks_url = "https://sandbox.orcid.org/oauth/jwks"  # ORCID Sandbox JWKS URL
+    jwks = requests.get(jwks_url).json()
+    headers = jwt.get_unverified_header(token)
+
+    public_keys = {}
+    for jwk in jwks['keys']:
+        kid = jwk['kid']
+        public_keys[kid] = jwt.algorithms.RSAAlgorithm.from_jwk(json.dumps(jwk))
+
+    rsa_key = public_keys[headers['kid']]
+    if rsa_key is None:
+        raise ValidationError('ORCID id_token is invalid.')
+
+    try:
+        jwt.decode(
+            token,
+            rsa_key,
+            algorithms=['RS256'],
+            audience=settings.ORCID_CLIENT_ID,
+            issuer=settings.ORCID_DOMAIN
+        )
+    except jwt.InvalidTokenError as e:
+        raise ValidationError('ORCID id_token is invalid.')
+
 def validate_orcid_id(value):
     """
     Validation to verify the ID returned during
diff --git a/physionet-django/user/views.py b/physionet-django/user/views.py
index 2e0134aa6..d8b04a8f2 100644
--- a/physionet-django/user/views.py
+++ b/physionet-django/user/views.py
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ def auth_orcid_login(request):
 
         auth_login(request, user, backend='user.backends.OrcidAuthBackend')
 
-    return redirect('home')
+    return redirect('login')
 
 
 def _fetch_and_validate_token(request, code, oauth_session):
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ def _fetch_and_validate_token(request, code, oauth_session):
 
         try:
             validators.validate_orcid_token(token['access_token'])
+            validators.validate_orcid_id_token(token['id_token'])
             return True, token
         except ValidationError:
             messages.error(request, 'Validation Error: ORCID token validation failed.')
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0dd54420c..c90d3dabd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ hdn-research-environment = "2.3.8"
 django-oauth-toolkit = "^2.2.0"
 django-cors-headers = "^3.14.0"
 urllib3 = "^1.26.19"
+pyjwt = "^2.9.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 coverage = "^7.2.3"