From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:15:55 +0100

This is already happening - see the 2013 blog posting from ORCiD:
http://orcid.org/blog/2013/11/09/universities-now-creating-orcid-ids-their-researchers
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On 27 June 2017 at 03:51, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:40:42 +0530
>
> As a scientometricist, I often face the problem of attributing
> research publications to the right authors. Author names are rendered
> differently in different publications, e.g. John Maynard Smith or John
> M Smith or J M Smith or Smith JM. Also, there could be more than one
> John M Smith. [The same way, names of institutions are also rendered
> in different ways. To take care of the multiple rendering of
> institutional names, Clarivate's Web of Science has a field called
> 'Organization enhanced' or OG. Even that does not capture all name
> variants.]
>
> If all authors of research publications adopt ORCID iD, the name
> ambiguity problem can be solved. More than a year ago, I and my
> colleague Muthu Madhan wrote a detailed paper on this issue:
>
> [http://www.nmji.in/temp/NatlMedJIndia294227-4257534_114935.pdf]
>
> but unfortunately, it does not seem to have reached many people.
>
> Academic and research librarians could campaign for the adoption of
> ORCID iD by all their users.
>
> Subbiah Arunachalam
> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009