Simon Porter1
1Digital Science, ,
Background: Over the past 10 years, stakeholders across the scholarly communications community have invested significantly not only to increase the adoption of ORCID adoption by researchers, but also to build the broader infrastructures that are needed both to support ORCID and to benefit from it. These parallel efforts have fostered the emergence of a “research information citizenry” between researchers, publishers, funders, and institutions.
Method: This presentation takes a scientometric approach to investigating how effectively ORCiD roles and responsibilities within this citizenry have been adopted. Focusing specifically on researchers, publishers, and funders, ORCID behaviours are measured against the approximated research world represented by the Dimensions dataset, with ORCID behaviour tracked across Crossref and ORCID public datasets.
Results: Using this Scientometric approach, differences in ORCiD in adoption and engagement can be observed across countries, funders, disciplines, research areas and publishers. For instance, Portugal ranks most highly in both ORCiD Adoption (67%), and ORCiD Engagement (70%). Poland, Australia,Denmark, Columbia and South Africa and New Zealand then follow with adoption levels between 50 and 60%. ORCiD engagement is also research field dependant, strongest in Earth Sciences, and relatively weak in Medical and Health Sciences.
Whilst many of these differences can be linked to funder and publisher interventions, individual trends in ORCiD adoption and engagement by state and institution suggest that local initiatives also make a difference.
Action: Finally ,this presentation will suggest a data driven approach to building research information citizenry around ORCiD over the next 10 years
Biography:
Simon Porter is the Director of Research Sector Transformation at Digital Science. A research sector professional, he previously worked for 15 years at the University of Melbourne in roles spanning the
Library, Research Administration, and Information Technology. Beginning from a core strength in the understanding of how information on research is collected, Simon has forged a career transforming
university practices in how data about research is used, both from administrative and eResearch perspectives. In addition to making key contributions to research information visualization and discovery
within the university, Simon is well known for his advocacy of Research Profiling Systems and their capability to create new opportunities for researchers.