The PID Matrix is a tool that can help you to choose the right PID for the right problem. In particular, it compares gold standard open and public options (like ORCID and DOIs) to proprietary options
An accurate record of scientific output is integral in academia. Maintaining accurate records of scientific output is important for documentation, discoverability, and assessment. Many aspects of academic life depend upon viewing research activity, including promotion, tenure, research grants, and service opportunities (Craft, 2020; HuMetricsHSS, 2022; Kjellberg & Haider, 2019). To maintain a digital academic presence, researchers use researcher profile systems, which fall into different types, including persistent identifiers (PIDs) (e.g., ORCID), researcher profiles (e.g., Web of Science Researcher Profiles/Publons, Google Scholar Profiles), and academic social networks (e.g., ResearchGate).
Researcher profile systems are increasing in prominence among academics and researchers. Reasons for using researcher profile systems include name disambiguation (distinguishing one researcher from another with the same name), promotion of scientific output, collaboration, maintaining an accurate list of research, tracking citations and research metrics (bibliometrics), and increasing the visibility of scholarly work. Researcher profiles increase the visibility of scholarly output…
Recommendations:
Smaller arts and humanities publishers integrate with ORCID and require submitting authors to have an ORCID profile.
Implement ORCID mandatory fields (e.g., full name and institutional or professional affiliation) and/or a minimum number of scholarly works.
Integrate contents of ORCID profiles to institutional or organizational profiles.
Upon registration, ORCID suggests authorization of third-party integrations (e.g., Crossref Metadata Search and Scopus).
Academic librarians continue to instruct and advocate for researcher profile systems.
Full article:
Justin Fuhr, Caroline Monnin; Researcher profile system adoption and use across discipline and rank: A case study at the University of Manitoba. Quantitative Science Studies 2024; 5 (3): 573–592. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00319
Is your work in the Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences?
ORCID has just made it possible to identify additional types of work in your ORCID record that may be of interest:
ORCID now supports new work types that allow users to correctly identify outputs common to the arts and humanities.
Design: Plans, drawing or set of drawings showing how something e.g. building, product is to be made and how it will work and look.
Image: A visual representation other than text, a still image.
Moving image: A moving display, either generated dynamically by a computer program or formed from a series of pre-recorded still images imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession.
Sound: A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.
Musical composition: Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music.
Blog post: A piece of writing or other item of content published on a blog.
Conference presentation: A set of slides containing text, tables or figures, designed to communicate ideas or research results, for projection and viewing by an audience at a conference, symposium, seminar, lecture, workshop or other gatherings.
Conference proceedings: Conference proceedings is the official record of a conference meeting. It is a collection of documents which corresponds to the presentations given at the conference. It may include additional content.
Clinical study: A work that reports on the results of a research study to evaluate interventions or exposures on biomedical or health-related outcomes. The two main types of clinical studies are interventional studies (clinical trials) and observational studies. While most clinical studies concern humans, this publication type may be used for clinical veterinary articles meeting the requisites for humans.
Learning object: Teaching material. A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments.
Cartographic Material: Any material representing the whole or part of the earth or any celestial body at any scale. Cartographic materials include two- and three-dimensional maps and plans (including maps of imaginary places); aeronautical, navigational, and celestial charts; atlases; globes; block diagrams; sections; aerial photographs with a cartographic purpose; bird’s-eye views (map views), etc
Transcription: A written record of words spoken in court proceedings or in a speech, interview, broadcast, or sound recording.
Public Speech: (new work type; not mapped to COAR.) An oral presentation of information to the public. Including talks, interviews and podcasts.
