Correctly Linking Researchers to Their Journal Articles: An Overview of Unique Author Identifiers

Mering, Margaret

doi:10.1080/00987913.2017.1386056

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“…ORCiD profiles can be created automatically or manually with data from a variety of sources. Initially, both ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID included only works indexed in proprietary platforms, which limited their usefulness to early career researchers, some geographic locations, and certain disciplines (Mering, 2017). The Scopus Author ID was also constrained by the limited date range of Scopus content coverage (1996 to present) which may disadvantage late career researchers (Gasparyan et al, 2017).…”

Section: Addressing Personal Name Ambiguity With a New Identifiermentioning

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Bridging identity challenges: why and how one library plugged ORCiD into their enterprise

Powell

Hoover

Gordon

et al. 2019

LHT

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation and impact of a locally customized Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) profile wizard. It also provides a broader context for adopting ORCiD as an identity and single sign-on solution. Design/methodology/approach A custom web application was designed by a library team and implemented using a combination of the OAuth protocol and the ORCiD web services API. The tool leveraged a rich, curated set of local publication data, and exposed integration hooks that allowed other enterprise systems to connect ORCiD IDs with an internal employee identifier. Findings Initially the tool saw only modest use. Ultimately its success depended upon integration with other enterprise systems and the requirement of an ORCiD ID for internal funding requests, rather than exclusively on the merits of the tool. Since introduction, it has been used to generate over 1,660 ORCiDs from a population of 4,000 actively publishing researchers. Practical implications Organizations that desire to track publications by many affiliated authors would likely benefit from some sort of integration with ORCiD web services. This is particularly true for organizations that have many publishing researchers and/or track publications spanning many decades. Enterprise integration is crucial to the success of such a project. Originality/value Research inputs and research products are now primarily digital objects. So having a reliable system for associating researchers with their output is a big challenge that, if solved, could increase researcher impact and enhance digital scholarship. ORCiD IDs are a potential glue for many aspects of this problem. The design and implementation of the wizard eased and quickened adoption of ORCiD Ids by local researchers due in part to the ease with which a researcher can push publication information already held by the library to their profile. Subsequent integration of researcher ORCiD IDs with local enterprise systems has enabled real-time propagation of ORCiD IDs across research proposal workflow, publication review and content discovery systems.

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Section: Addressing Personal Name Ambiguity With a New Identifiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging identity challenges: why and how one library plugged ORCiD into their enterprise

Powell

Hoover

Gordon

et al. 2019

LHT

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“…Indeed, difficulties encountered in tracking scholarly and institutional publications are numerous due to identical or similar names, name changes over time due to marriage, or the use of aliases or author groups [ 6 ]. Change of researcher affiliations over time, due to researcher mobility and/or lack of uniformity when declaring affiliations in articles are also well known difficulties [ 7 , 8 ]. Different spellings of names can occur due to alternative transliterations of some author names from other alphabets (e.g.…”

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“…Numerous articles have been published on ASNs, especially Academia.edu and ResearchGate [ 17 ], or to explain the usefulness of AIDs (e.g. [ 8 , 15 , 13 , 16 ]), but few studies have been conducted specifically to assess how AIDs are used by researchers [ 7 , 18 , 19 ]. It is important to examine the usage of these systems to know who and where the users of AIDs are, and to assess whether these tools could improve the characterization of institutional or researchers’ scientific output.…”

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Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

Boudry

Durand-Barthez

2020

PLoS ONE

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The purpose of this paper was to assess the presence of researchers on two author identifier services (ORCID and ResearcherID) and to compare the results with two academic social networks (Academia.edu and ResearchGate) using the categories of discipline, career advancement, and gender in a medium sized multidisciplinary university in France (University of Caen Normandy). Metrics such as number of publications per researcher, h-indexes, and average number of citations were also assessed. Of the 1,047 researchers studied, 673 (64.3%) had at least one profile on the four sites, and the number of researchers having multiple profiles decreased as more sites were studied. Researchers with only one profile numbered 385 (36.8%), while 204 (19.5%) had two, 68 (6.5%) had three, and only 16 (1.5%) had four. ResearchGate had by far the highest number of researchers present, with 569 (54.3%), whereas presence on the other sites was about 15%. We found that, apart from Academia.edu, researchers in Sciences, Technology, and Medicine (STM) were over-represented. Overall, experienced male researchers were over-represented on the sites studied. Our results show that, because of the numerous profiles lacking publication references (particularly on ORCID) and a low presence of researchers on the four sites studied (except for ResearchGate), assessing the number of publications, h-indexes, or average number of citations per article of individuals or institutions remains challenging. Finally, our data showed that French researchers have not adopted the use of the two author identifier sites (i.e. ORCID and ResearcherID). As long as French researchers remain reticent, these sites will not be able to provide the services for which they were created: addressing the problem of author misidentification, consequently providing exhaustive access to scientific production and bibliometric indicators of individual researchers and their institutions.

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“…Ali and Richardson (2017) showed that accruing citations was the main reason for the respondents to upload their publications. The studies by Bardakcı, Arslan and U¨never (2017), Meishar-Tal and Pieterse (2017), and Mering (2017) proved that the use of social network sites enhanced the research collaboration and information development with researchers across the globe. Jeng et al, (2017) motivated the respondents by stimulating scholarly interactions to reduce the rate of confusion, improving the clarity of questions, and promoting scholarly content management.…”

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Awareness of Social Media Tools Among Engineering Faculties and Students in Puducherry – A Study

Jayakumar¹,

Tamilselvan²

2018

IJLIS

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The paper highlights the extent of awareness on the social media tools among the engineering faculties and students in Puducherry through a survey conducted with 551 respondents from nine engineering colleges. The findings revealed that more than 90 percent of the respondents were aware of social media tools in general; and particularly, Facebook Live was found to be most familiar among the respondents; 93.15 percent of the faculty respondents were aware of Instagram while 97.49 percent each of the students are most familiarized with Mention and Tweetdeck and 97.26 percent of the faculties opined that Friends request from unfamiliar person was found to be the major security concern while 94.56 percent of the students opined that Junk posting of photos and videos was found to be the major security concern. Overall, it was found that most of the respondents were aware of the social media tools and their applications for various purposes. However, the respondents should be motivated to make use of these tools for academic purposes through which the recognition of the institutions and their stakeholders in a better place with more visibility.

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Correctly Linking Researchers to Their Journal Articles: An Overview of Unique Author Identifiers

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Bridging identity challenges: why and how one library plugged ORCiD into their enterprise

Bridging identity challenges: why and how one library plugged ORCiD into their enterprise

Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

Awareness of Social Media Tools Among Engineering Faculties and Students in Puducherry – A Study

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