ORCID identifiers in research workflows: Crossref’s ORCID Auto Update Ed Pentz

Executive Director

Crossref overview

• 5300 publisher members, 1 member 1 vote• Metadata store of 80 million records for scholarly content• Persistent citation linking• Funder identifiers• Open Metadata API• Report and display corrections & retractions• Check manuscripts for similarities• Data about non-scholarly activity e.g. social

Metadata enables connections.

What is it?

• When publishers deposit an author’s ORCID with the article metadata, Crossref will ask for long-lived permission from that author to post works to their ORCID record. • Once permission is granted, Crossref will automatically post

these works to the authors record and any future publications from any Crossref member. • Any article deposited with an author’s ORCID in the past will

also get automatically pushed to the record after permission has been granted.

Number of Crossref records with ORCID iDs

up from 180,000 in 2015

Number of Crossref records with ORCID iDs

365,897up from 180,000 in 2015

Number of requests sent by Crossref

Number of requests sent by Crossref

481,992

Number of authorisations for Crossref

Number of authorisations for Crossref

100,819 (21%)

Number of denials for Crossref

Number of denials for Crossref

11,994 (2.5%)

Number of works added

Number of works added

136,559

Next steps

• deeper analysis of stats: what’s working, what isn’t

• better messaging from publishers• notifications of updates• different workflow?

Thank you! epentz@crossref.org

@epentz