Visualizing institutional activity using persistent identifier metadata

Persistent Identifiers and the Next Generation of Legal Scholarship

Abstract. According to the French Development Agency, "only 3.2% of the world's scientific publications come from the African continent" (AFD, 2021). This low visibility or accessibility reflects a low reuse of scientific production, particularly in French-speaking subSaharan African countries, faced with a lack of adequate infrastructure, policies, and skills, etc. Signed in 2021, the UNESCO recommendation on open science aims to make scientific knowledge freely accessible and reusable by all to address global and societal challenges. Despite its implementation through the deployment of the national repository since 2016, the Open Access Week Côte d'Ivoire established in 2018, the national symposium held in 2022, UVCI Open Science policy 2022, etc., the visibility of the scientific production from Côte d’Ivoire remains low. This study aims to improve the visibility of the scientific production by integrating persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI). The data collected from researchers training sessions, reveal the lack of awareness on the issues and interest in using ORCID ID (75% answers). It is a permanent and sustainable identifier useful throughout the researcher's career. It links the researcher to its productions and information systems. However, its integration requires informational and digital skills. The ORCID project has made possible raising awareness, advocating and building capacities. The data collected, qualitative and quantitative, come from observation and discussions with 716 participants and 187 answers to the questionnaire. Data analysis reveals new skills acquired, highlights training needs expressed by 73.2% and the usefulness of this training (98%). With 96% response, the need to advocate to integrate ORCID Id into the practices of researchers and institutions is confirmed. Thus, ten (10) academic and public institutions have committed to the creation of the national consortium to perpetuate the achievements of the ORCID project. In conclusion, this work has broadened our understanding of the concept of information literacy with the integration of ORCID Id by communities and research institutions to improve the visibility of the scientific production. Keywords : open science, persistent identifiers, ORCID Id, information literacy, scientific production visibility.

We analyze the different persistent identifiers (PIDs) and the potential interoperability between them. We propose different approach to the interoperability between DataCite DOIs and ORCID IDs as well as between other PIDs. We present claim tools and data connections for different types of research objects.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a community-driven non-profit organization that provides an open registry of persistent identifiers for researchers and scholars. The mission of ORCID is to address the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communication. ORCID works with the research community to embed identifiers in research workflows: grant applications, manuscript submissions, association membership renewal, meeting abstract submission, everywhere that a person can be connected with a research or scholarly contribution. This article describes ORCID, and its adoption by the research community, and provides examples of how ORCID identifiers are being integrated by organizations throughout the community and becoming part of the metadata on a diverse set of documents. Ultimately, the goal of ORCID is to improve discoverability, reduce repetitive data entry, and thereby allow researchers and organizations more time to focus on research and scholarly pursuits.

By offering services that connect scholarly resources such as people, publications and data, partners involved in the FREYA project aim to ensure these resources are findable, accessible, interoperable and if possible, re-usable. Central to this is the use of identifiers (DOIs, ORCID iDs, accession numbers) that allow for unambiguous identification of each resource to be shared. Biocurators can stand to benefit from FREYA-related services aimed at making discovery of records faster, and enabling credit for biocuration work. Making discovery of life sciences literature and underlying data records faster: Europe PMC , hosted at EMBL-EBI, is a database of 35M abstracts and over 5M full text articles. Using persistent identifiers, we have connected citation counts, 95M datasets, 1M ORCIDs and 8M funding acknowledgements to these articles. Linking identifiers for new resource types as they become available, is enriching the source of trusted records for the community. Enabling credit for biocuration contributions, whether they be publications authored, or datasets generated, curated or peer reviewed: by signing up for an ORCID iD, it is possible to claim datasets to one’s ORCID profile. A growing number of EMBL-EBI databases are integrating ORCID functionality that allows researchers to add their ORCID ID to datasets on submission or retrospectively claim dataset records they have contributed to as authors, curators or reviewers, to their ORCID profile.

The article is a review that in the initial part presents main data about the project named ORCID. Open Researcher and Contributor ID which is full name of the project aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current researcher ID schemes. These identifiers, and the relationships among them, can be linked to the researcher’s output to enhance the scientific discovery process and to improve the efficiency of research funding and collaboration within the research community. ORCID project involved researchers, universities, national laboratories, commercial research organizations, publishers, national scientific agencies, scientometric databases, repositories, and international professional associations. ORCID accounting system provides researchers two main features: a unique identifier to obtain and monitor the results of research; using an application programming interface for transferring data between different accounting systems, and attribution of scientific papers in each of them. Author of the paper describes in details the process of registration in ORCID which consists in filling out serial forms. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes one researcher from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researcher and professional activities ensuring that researcher’s work is recognized. To ensure the connection between the name of the scientist and the results of his scientific activity ORCID ID information should be added while sending manuscript for publication, applying for grants and other research processes, introduce it to the various search browsers, scientometric databases and social networks. This will help to improve scientific international relationships, increase the representation of Ukrainian research work results in the global scholarly communication.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation and impact of a locally customized Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) profile wizard. It also provides a broader context for adopting ORCiD as an identity and single sign-on solution.Design/methodology/approachA custom web application was designed by a library team and implemented using a combination of the OAuth protocol and the ORCiD web services API. The tool leveraged a rich, curated set of local publication data, and exposed integration hooks that allowed other enterprise systems to connect ORCiD IDs with an internal employee identifier.FindingsInitially the tool saw only modest use. Ultimately its success depended upon integration with other enterprise systems and the requirement of an ORCiD ID for internal funding requests, rather than exclusively on the merits of the tool. Since introduction, it has been used to generate over 1,660 ORCiDs from a population of 4,000 actively publishing researchers.Practical implicationsOrganizations that desire to track publications by many affiliated authors would likely benefit from some sort of integration with ORCiD web services. This is particularly true for organizations that have many publishing researchers and/or track publications spanning many decades. Enterprise integration is crucial to the success of such a project.Originality/valueResearch inputs and research products are now primarily digital objects. So having a reliable system for associating researchers with their output is a big challenge that, if solved, could increase researcher impact and enhance digital scholarship. ORCiD IDs are a potential glue for many aspects of this problem. The design and implementation of the wizard eased and quickened adoption of ORCiD Ids by local researchers due in part to the ease with which a researcher can push publication information already held by the library to their profile. Subsequent integration of researcher ORCiD IDs with local enterprise systems has enabled real-time propagation of ORCiD IDs across research proposal workflow, publication review and content discovery systems.

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<p>GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—and its network of more than 1,500 institutions maintain the world's largest index of biodiversity data (https://www.gbif.org), containing nearly 1.4 billion species occurrence records. This infrastructure offers a model of best practices, both technological and cultural, that other domains may wish to adapt or emulate to ensure that its users have free, FAIR and open access to data.</p><p>The availability of community-supported data and metadata standards in the biodiversity informatics community, combined with the adoption (in 2014) of open Creative Commons licensing for data shared with GBIF, established the necessary preconditions for the network's recent growth.</p><p>But GBIF's development of a data citation system based on the uses of DOIs—Digital Object Identifiers—has established an approach for using unique identifiers to establish direct links between scientific research and the underlying data on which it depends. The resulting state-of-the-art system tracks uses and reuses of data in research and credits data citations back to individual datasets and publishers, helping to ensure the transparency of biodiversity-related scientific analyses.</p><p>In 2015, GBIF began issuing a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for every data download. This system resolves each download to a landing page containing 1) the taxonomic, geographic, temporal and other search parameters used to generate the download; 2) a quantitative map of the underlying datasets that contributed to the download; and 3) a simple citation to be included in works that rely on the data.</p><p>When authors cite these download DOIs, they in effect assert direct links between scientific papers and underlying data. Crossref registers these links through Event Data, enabling GBIF to track citation counts automatically for each download, dataset and publisher. These counts expand to display a bibliography of all research reuses of the data.This system improves the incentives for institutions to share open data by providing quantifiable measures demonstrating the value and impact of sharing data for others' research.</p><p>GBIF is a mature infrastructure that supports a wide pool of researchers publish two peer-reviewed journal articles that rely on this data every day. That said, the citation-tracking and -crediting system has room for improvement. At present, 21% of papers using GBIF-mediated data provide DOI citations—which represents a 30% increase over 2018. Through outreach to authors and collaboration with journals, GBIF aims to continue this trend.</p><p>In addition, members of the GBIF network are seeking to extend citation credits to individuals through tools like Bloodhound Tracker (https://www.bloodhound-tracker.net) using persistent identifiers from ORCID and Wikidata IDs. This approach provides a compelling model for the scientific and scholarly benefits of treating individual data records from specimens as micro- or nanopublications—first-class research objects that advancing both FAIR data and open science.</p>

The author analyzes the dynamics of scientometrical indicators (publication activity, citation and impact) of Russian research in storytelling in 2012–2021. Storytelling is seen as the marketing technology used to deliver information to the audience through stories. In recent years, storytelling has been intensively used in advertising, social media, corporate blogging, and in education. The lines of research of the greatest impact are identified, among them: storytelling as an efficient communication technology, digital storytelling in students’ projects, and storytelling method in corporate management. In accordance with the Hirsch index, the Russian scholars’ research activity in the field exceeds significantly the world minimum value of 16. The dynamics of the above indicators is revealed, including the rare occurrence of continuous growth in the number of publications by the end of the existent period; the organization which storytelling studies are extensively used by country’s other institutions, are identified, among them Nizhny Novgorod Kozma Minin Pedagogical University, Ural State Pedagogical University, RF Ministry for Civil Defense Academy of State Fire-fighting Service. The analysis was accomplished based on Russian Science Citation Index (RISC) database. The illustrations are included to visualize the research findings.

Marine Scotland, a directorate of Scottish Government, comprises of policy, planning and science divisions that collectively aim to manage Scotland's seas for prosperity and sustainability. Across this wide portfolio, data underpin the decisions Marine Scotland makes and the advice it provides to Ministers and the public. A transparent and robust decision making process requires easy access to authoritative data, both for use within Marine Scotland and by external stakeholders. Marine Scotland manages three data-driven services that work in harmony to provide an Open Data Network: Marine Scotland Information, Marine Scotland Data and Marine Scotland Maps. By closely following Open Data standards and working with the INSPIRE directive and open source tools, Marine Scotland has designed a complex but highly responsive network of services to bring together data access and visualisation, GIS capabilities and an information management solution. There are an increasing number of users of the sea, and while traditional management activities such as fisheries management and environmental monitoring and assessment still feature heavily, marine spatial management, licensing of activities and protecting designated areas are becoming the integrating tools for a more holistic management of the seas. In Scotland, the Scottish Government introduced a National Marine Plan, first published in 2015, which fulfils the requirements of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, and the Maritime Spatial Planning EU Directive (2014/89/EU). During the work to prepare an assessment on the condition of the Scottish marine area, Scotland's Marine Atlas was published in 2011. To support the Atlas, and in recognition of the need to update and manage spatial information on Scotland's seas, an interactive GIS portal was developed — National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPi), now known as Marine Scotland Maps. While the GIS portal greatly enhanced stakeholder engagement and created a tool for updating and managing spatial information to support planning of activities in Scottish seas, there was recognition that additional information was often required. Information web pages for spatial layers were created — initially a manual process- and subsequently transferred to a more dynamic database driven system to facilitate reuse of information sources and links. Within the research and monitoring function of Marine Scotland, data publication was becoming a pressing matter — not just for GIS representation, but to provide persistent identifiers to facilitate collaborative data sharing, and to be used in peer reviewed publications as well as Marine Scotland's own scientific report series. To improve access, and at the same time embrace the developing Scottish Government Open Data Strategy that was published in 2015, Marine Scotland deployed an open data portal (Marine Scotland Data) using open source software and open standards. This delivers open data at 4-star rating (www.5stardata.info) while also minting persistent identifiers on the datasets to improve citation and use in scientific literature. A number of the datasets published on Marine Scotland Data were increasingly used and referenced from pages describing the work presented on the Marine Scotland Map GIS portal, and it was decided to make the supporting information web pages more integrated to provide a more holistic description and access for stakeholders as well as enabling Marine Scotland to make better use of its own published information assets. The new information portal, Marine Scotland Information (MSI), was developed on a Drupal platform which combines service data from open standards (OGC standards and DCAT JSON feeds) with content generated by staff. Vocabularies allow the categorisation of service data and other content into searchable resources that allow stakeholders to locate and read about a broader topic, and then jump to the specific datasets and map layers as required. In this way MSI acts as a central source of information, bringing the data and GIS services together. The utilisation of information available through services enabled further keywords to be automatically generated, and additional metadata on spatial layers to be supplied through MSI. This provides context, user-friendly information and guided access to Marine Scotland data. It also facilities access to the more advanced functions offered by the data and GIS portals. The combination of contextual information with direct data access and open standards means that Marine Scotland is increasingly using its external facing tools for a substantial part of its data and information management for internal work also. This paper discusses the design and functionality of the Marine Scotland open data solution, and how the systems improve information management for both Marine Scotland and its stakeholders.

The evaluation of research activities in higher education institutions based on the principles of open science contributes to improving the quality of research, strengthening institutional research capacity, and deepening the integration of Ukraine’s education and research system into the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area. This article addresses the problem of improving the updated methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of research activities proposed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in 2024. The study presents and analyses the results of an expert survey conducted among representatives of the academic community of higher education institutions by the researchers of the Department of University Research Activities of the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine in April–May 2025. The survey was based on the questionnaire “Improving the Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Research (Scientific and Technical) Activities of Research Institutions and Higher Education Institutions in Terms of Conducting Research (Scientific and Technical) Activities” (hereinafter – the Methodology). The generalization of the obtained responses confirmed that the Methodology is generally perceived positively by the expert community, though its implementation has raised certain concerns. The structured analysis of the respondents’ comments made it possible to identify four key groups of problems within the proposed Methodology: procedural-bureaucratic, methodological, systemic-organizational, and content-indicator related. Responses to closed-ended questions demonstrated that most drawbacks (over 70% of all comments) relate not to the concept of the Methodology itself but to the mechanisms of its practical implementation, the transparency of procedures, and the consistency of criteria. The low level of polarization and the high concentration of responses confirmed a shared understanding among respondents—holding different positions within higher education institutions—regarding ways to improve the technical and methodological support and to standardize evaluation procedures within the Methodology. The article classifies and presents respondents’ proposals for improving the evaluation procedure across four dimensions: the operationalization process dimension, the evaluation criteria and indicators dimension, the technical enhancement dimension, and the human potential development dimension. Recommendations are proposed at both national and institutional levels to increase the overall effectiveness of the Methodology.

Governmental, funder, and scholarly publisher mandates for FAIR and open data are pushing researchers to archive data with persistent identifiers in repositories and link datasets in journal articles. Data citations enable transparency in research and credit and impact metrics for data reuse. However, numerous adoption barriers still exist, including that bibliographic reference management software commonly used by researchers to ease the referencing process may not yet be equipped to handle datasets. This paper examines the readiness of commonly used reference management software to support researchers in importing bibliographic metadata for datasets and generating references that comply with leading practices for data citation. Using seven major reference managers and datasets sampled across 14 Earth, space, and environmental sciences repositories, we identify and analyze common errors in reference-manager-facilitated metadata capture, storage, and citation export, using quantitative content analysis to compare repository-provided recommended citations, reference manager results, and DataCite metadata records. We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse. The range and scale of issues uncovered are broadly extensible and relevant to data citation across disciplines. We present actionable recommendations for reference manager, data repository, scholarly publisher, and researcher stakeholders for increasing the ease, efficiency, and accuracy of bibliographic management software-facilitated data citation.

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Cervical cancer has caused substantial morbidity and mortality for millions of women over the past decades. While enormous progress has been made in diagnosis, prevention and therapy, the disease is still fatal for many women—especially in low-income countries. Since no detailed studies are available on the worldwide research landscape, we here investigated the global scientific output related to this cancer type by an established protocol. The “New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science” platform assessed all relevant cervical cancer research published in the Web of Science since 1900. A detailed analysis was conducted including country-specific research productivity, indicators for scientific quality, and relation of research activity to socioeconomic and epidemiologic figures. Visualization of data was generated by the use of density equalizing map projections. Our approach identified 22,185 articles specifically related to cervical cancer. From a global viewpoint, the United States of America was the dominating country in absolute numbers, being followed by China and Japan. By contrast, the European countries Sweden, Austria, and Norway were positioned first when the research activity was related to the population number. When the scientific productivity was related to annual cervical cancer cases, Scandinavian countries (Finland #1, Sweden #4, Norway #5, Denmark #7), the Alpine countries Austria (#2) and Switzerland (#6), and the Netherlands (#3) were leading the field. Density equalizing mapping visualized that large parts of Africa and South America were almost invisible regarding the global participation in cervical cancer research. Our data documented that worldwide cervical cancer research activity is continuously increasing but is imbalanced from a global viewpoint. Also, the study indicated that global and public health aspects should be strengthened in cervical carcinoma research in order to empower more countries to take part in international research activities.