diff --git a/layouts/custom/people.html b/layouts/custom/people.html
index 212c3b308d398f21ce2e6ade3e8102755466156c..0efd43dfebce3477131380a37717103a4501d7a0 100644
--- a/layouts/custom/people.html
+++ b/layouts/custom/people.html
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
             <h4>{{.Params.tit}}</h4>
             {{ if not (eq .Params.orcid "") }}
             <p>
-                <a href="https://orcid.org/{{.Params.orcid}}"><img
+                <a href="https://orcid.org/{{.Params.orcid}}" target="_blank"><img
                         src="https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16.png">orcid.org/{{.Params.orcid}}</a>
             </p>
             {{ end }}
diff --git a/layouts/custom/publications.html b/layouts/custom/publications.html
index 687e4d552d5eb7bcca43d1f5888370387fbf008e..41a1a238e935a06c0c0c61276240ad292cbd3542 100644
--- a/layouts/custom/publications.html
+++ b/layouts/custom/publications.html
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         {{ if not (eq .Params.ppubmed "") }}
         <h4><i><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term={{.Params.ppubmed}}" target="_blank">
                     {{else}}
-                    <h4><i><a href="{{.Params.plink}}">
+                    <h4><i><a href="{{.Params.plink}}" target="_blank">
                                 {{end}}
                                 {{.Params.pauthor}}, {{.Params.pjournal}},{{.Params.pdate}}</a></i></h4>
                     {{ range first 1 .Params.prepo }}