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Karen Rowlett
Research Publications Adviser
k.a.rowlett@reading.ac.uk
@karenanya
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DELVING INTO ORCID API DATA
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ORCID @ READING
• Member of the JISC consortium
• No current integration in our Eprints institutional repository, CentAUR
• No current integration in our Eprints data repository
• No CRIS system or plans to acquire one
• Focus has been on advocacy for ORCID uptake
• Plan to implement ORCID Eprints plug-in by Q3 2019
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WHAT DID WE KNOW?
• Number of ORCID sign-ups based on Reading email addresses
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0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
Growth in ORCID numbers 2016-2019
Don’t know who they are
Don’t know if they are still at University of Reading
Don’t know if they are students or staff
Not everyone uses their institutional email address to signup
Leavers don’t change the primary email address that they used to sign up with
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WHAT DID WE KNOW?
• Number of Reading affiliated Authors in Scopus with an ORCID ID linked
found via an export from Scopus
8876 authors with an affiliation with University of Reading
422 have an ORCID ID associated with their Scopus record
Of the 422, 264 are in our current Research Division structures
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In a recognised research group? Number
Environment Theme 89
Food Theme 28
Health Theme 49
Heritage and Creativity Theme 60
Prosperity and Resilience Theme 38
Not in a Theme or Research Division 158
Grand Total 422
Can match to
individuals as I have
the Scopus Author IDs
recorded as part of my
structures in SciVal

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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
• Who are the 1400 individuals?
• Have any of them added works?
• How many are current staff?
• How many are students?
• Do they need help/encouragement to populate their ORCID records?
• How can I help if I don’t know who they are?
• Working with developers at the ORCID Day in March, we managed to get
an export using the ORCID public API based on the Ringgold ID of an
institution
http://powerful-chamber-19570.herokuapp.com/
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DATA, LOVELY DATA
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Export gives 2004 ORCID records
with a mention of University of
Reading in the Education or
Employment sections
Caveats:
• Information has to be set as
PUBLIC by the user
• May be more than one Ringgold
ID in use at your institution
• Very few users make their email
address public (77 out of 2004)
• Number of works reports even if
the items themselves are private
What does the export give you?
• ORCID ID
• Date record last updated
• Name
• Education
• Employment
• Other IDs linked to their ORCID
• Email address
• Work count

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PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
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Are they staff or students? • 88/469 presumed current staff have
not added any works to their records
• Over half (251) have made an update
to their records in 2019
• But, 30 haven’t touched them since
2016….
• Half (234) have added at least one
other identifier to their record
(Scopus, Loop, Researcher ID etc)
• Current status is based on their last
entry being UoR – may not be
accurate
Staff/Student? Were they a student?
Were they staff? No Yes Grand Total
No 2 1203 1205
Yes 580 217 797
Grand Total 582 1420 2002
Are they current staff?
Are they current staff? Number
Last employment was University of Reading 469
Last employment was not University of Reading 328
Grand Total 797
Are they Research Division members?
Currently in a Theme/Research Division? Count of ORCID ID
Environment Theme 39
Food Theme 16
Health Theme 24
Heritage and Creativity Theme 35
Prosperity and Resilience Theme 30
Grand Total 144

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WHAT NEXT?
• Data from API export can be used as a baseline to measure future
advocacy activity and track impact of future integration
• I will change my recommendation for researchers when setting up
ORCIDs, currently don’t ask them to add employment details
• Export gives me a target list for:
1. Emailing individuals who have not added any works to their records with
offers of help or links to handouts
2. Emailing individuals who have not updated their records recently with
encouragement to add new information
3. Emailing individuals who have not linked a Scopus ID or any other kind
of ID to their record with tips and tricks/handouts on how to do so
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CONTACT DETAILS
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Happy to share the
methods that I used to
look into the data