Hindawi’s ORCID Integration

Paul Peters Chief Strategy OfficerHindawi Publishing Corporationpaul.peters@hindawi.com

Outline• Why We Embraced ORCID

• What We Have Done so Far

• Challenges That We Have Faced

• The Road Ahead

Outline• Why We Embraced ORCID

• What We Have Done so Far

• Challenges That We Have Faced

• The Road Ahead

Everything We Do Is Driven By Data

So We Need Reliable Author Identifiers

But There Are No Reliable Author

Identifiers

And There Can Be No Reliable Author

Identifiers Without ORCID

Outline• Why We Embraced ORCID

• What We Have Done so Far

• Challenges That We Have Faced

• The Road Ahead

Technical Integration

Deposited ORCIDs With CrossRef for

>2,000 Articles

Now the Hard Part

10 Editorial Staff

We Have Contacted ~250,000 Authors,

Editors, and Reviewers

~20% of These (44,000) Researchers Have

Registered an ORCID

Outline• Why We Were so Eager to Embrace ORCID

• What We Have Done so Far

• Challenges That We Have Faced

• The Road Ahead

Researchers Are Reluctant to Register

“I do not find this a good idea for a number of reasons. First, there is no name ambiguity problem concerning (name) and (name).”

“I would prefer not to have a profile with my e-mail to be shared with commercial interests.”

“I really do not like such bureaucratic procedures. I must not and shall not be obliged to write about my academic work or my

biography. If you want an example or examples of my works, you can usually find them on the Internet.”

“F@&# off. Go home and f@&# yourself.”

Researchers Don’t Always Understand

ORCID

“I remembered that I have registered for an ORCID ID for another publisher a month ago with the ID number "0000-0002-

xxxx-xxxx". Now my question is: Must my ORCID ID for Hindawi be the same?”

“It is the same because we are twins, colleagues and brothers.”

There Are Still Technical Bugs

“I tried to register in ORCID but I am having problems in registering. After filling all the information and when I press register, it does not move further. It stays in the same page.”

“This crap shows:

Notice:{constraints.fieldmatch}

What the hell is this?”

“I suppose that you are working in India where I have felt that infrastructure of logistics and IT are very very

premature… Please contact me again when your site is ready for international accesses.”

April Fool’s...

“I have tried to log into the webpage you described, but it is all Greek to me, as I don't understand the language shown in the page

at all.”

“The link takes me to a website in German.... it looks very suspicious please advise.”

“I was redirected to the following websitehttps://orcid.org/oauth/signin

containing Polish texts etc. (e.g. Jom't lavi am eJ? Rigeztir)

I don't think this is serious anymore. Please remove me as an Associate Editor of your journal as soon as possible.”

Ensuring the Quality of Metadata Hasn’t Been

Easy

ORCID Surname

ORCID Given Name

MTS Surname

MTS Given Name

G.P. Senthilkumar Senthilkumar G.P.

Renga Thavasi Thavasi Thavasi Rengathavasi

MalaDr Tariq Ahmed Mala Tariq Ahmed

ORCID Surname

ORCID Given Name

MTS Surname

MTS Given Name

Qin Yu Yi Shuhua

Hong Xianpei Zhang Huaige

Delogu Mauro Cotti Claudia

Outline• Why We Were so Eager to Embrace ORCID

• What We Have Done so Far

• Challenges That We Have Faced

• The Road Ahead

Continuing to Ask Our Authors, Editors, and Reviewers to Register

Encouraging Those With ORCIDs to Add

Profile Information

Linking ORCIDs With Other Author

Identifiers

FundRef

We Have Deposited ~60 Articles with

FundRef Data, ~20 of Which Have ORCIDs

Thank You

Paul Peters Chief Strategy OfficerHindawi Publishing Corporationpaul.peters@hindawi.com