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ORCID growth and field‐wise dynamics of adoption: A case study of the Toulouse scientific area

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Research‐focused information systems harvest and promote the scientific output of researchers. Disambiguating author identities is key when disentangling homonyms to avoid merging several persons' records. ORCID offers an identifier to link one's identity, affiliations and bibliography. While funding agencies and scholarly publishers promote ORCID, little is known about its adoption rate. We introduce a method to quantify ORCID adoption according to researchers' discipline and occupation in a higher‐education organization. We semi‐automatically matched the 6,607 staff members affiliated to the 145 labs of the Toulouse scientific area with the 7.3 million profiles at orcid.org. The observed ORCID adoption of 41.8% comes with discipline‐wise disparities. Unexpectedly, only 48.3% of all profiles listed at least one work and profiles with no works might just have been created to get an identifier. Those ‘empty’ profiles are of little interest for the entity disambiguation task. To our knowledge, this is the first study of ORCID adoption at the scale of a multidisciplinary scientific metropole. This method is replicable and future studies can target other cases to contrast the dynamics of ORCID adoption worldwide.

Source: Learned Publishing

DOI: 10.1002/leap.1451

Authors: Marie‐Dominique Heusse, Guillaume Cabanac

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,000

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche