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 Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting Oxford, UK Tel: +44 1865 864255 or +44 7775 627688 email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.pspconsulting.org @LearnedPublish **** Editor-in-Chief of Learned Publishing: www.Learned-Publishing Editor of the ALPSP Alert: http://www.alpsp.org/ALPSP-Alert **** 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