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?
