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- Title
ORCID growth and field‐wise dynamics of adoption: A case study of the Toulouse scientific area.
- Authors
Heusse, Marie‐Dominique; Cabanac, Guillaume
- 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.
- Subjects
TOULOUSE (France); INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; HOMONYMS
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2022, Vol 35, Issue 4, p454
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/leap.1451