ORCID provides digital identifiers for researchers that allow for their works and activities to be discoverable and attributed correctly. Implementing these identifiers in peer review workflows can enhance discoverability of reviewers and make review activities measurable. Over 1.3 million researchers have registered for an ORCID identifier, which are associated with works, affiliations and organizations. ORCID is working on embedding identifiers in publishing and grants to automatically link researchers to their professional activities.

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Peer Review and Persistent IDs
ARCSCON, Philadelphia, 28 April 2015
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

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4. Implementing digital identifiers in peer
review workflows will:
• Enhance discoverability of peer reviewers
and their associated works and affiliations
• Make peer review activities measurable
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5. ORCID provides plumbing for
research information—and the
tools to build trust
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What is ORCID?
ORCID provides persistent machine-readable names
(aka digital identifiers) for researchers.
Member-built integrations of ORCID identifiers in
key research workflows such as manuscript and
grant submission support automated linkages
between researchers and their professional activities
and affiliations, ensuring that works are appropriately
attributed and discoverable
ORCID serves as a hub enabling machine-readable
connections between identifiers for organizations,
works, and person IDs

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To benefit from ORCID,
researchers need only do
two things:
① Register (30 seconds)
② Use iD (30 seconds)

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Over 1.3 million researchers have registered for
an ORCID identifier.
ORCID identifiers are associated with:
• 2 million unique DOIs
• 20 thousand unique educational affiliations
• 30 thousand unique employing organizations

9. Building trust:
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• Create the tools to allow for easy addition of
identifiers (for people, places, and things) during
publishing, grant application, thesis deposit, etc.
• Engage the community to embed, authenticate, and
assert

10. ORCID iDs are being embedded in articles

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... and grants…

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The author can pre-populate
submission form fields: preferred
name, affiliation, funding
The authenticated iD becomes a
part of the paper
Upon publication, the iD is indexed
by CrossRef, Scopus,Web of
Science, and other services.
..AND the author’s ORCID record
is updated with provenance
Information flows through ORCID
to linked platforms
Coming in 2015:

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http://casrai.org/standards/subject-groups/peer-review-services#.VT8DD2YfDKA

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Peer Review Citation
Data Elements
http://dictionary.casrai.org/Peer_Review_Services

15. Where are we?
• Journals starting to collect ORCID iDs from
reviewers; funders planning workflows
• ORCID building out user interface and APIs to
support posting of peer review data
• Planning pilot studies with F1000 and other
platforms to test out record update process
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16. Challenges:
• Peer review activities must be associated
with identifiers—for the reviewer, the
activity itself, and the reviewer affiliation
• Connections between identifiers must be
made using authentication
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19. • Take 30 seconds to
register at
http://orcid.org/register
• Free to researchers
• Individual owns the
record and controls
privacy settings
• Works on laptops,
tablets, and phones
Register for your