Measuring Research Information Citizenship Across ORCID Practice

TL;DR

This paper evaluates how effectively different research stakeholders, including researchers, publishers, and funders, have adopted ORCID practices within the broader scholarly communication infrastructure using scientometric analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a scientometric approach to measure ORCID adoption across various stakeholder roles in the research community.

Findings

Researchers show high ORCID adoption rates.

Publishers and funders have variable engagement levels.

ORCID practices are progressing but uneven across stakeholder groups.

Abstract

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 the broader infrastructures that are needed both to support ORCID and to benefit from it. These parallel efforts have fostered the emergence of "research information citizenry", which comprises, but is not limited to, researchers, publishers, funders, and institutions. This paper 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.