Study of ORCID Adoption Across Disciplines and Locations | Zenodo

Study of ORCID Adoption Across Disciplines and Locations Dasler, Robin; Deane-Pratt, Adèniké; Lavasa, Artemis; Rueda, Laura; Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje Horizon 2020 project THOR (http://project-thor.eu) studied the adoption of ORCID iDs in order to identify trends and barriers within and between disciplines and geographic locations. The data used in this study is also available in Zenodo (see related identifiers).

"Executive Summary:

Study of ORCID Adoption across Disciplines and Locations

In order to pursue its mission of improving the global PID infrastructure, the THOR project had previously developed the means to aggregate information on basic high-level trends in PID adoption from our primary infrastructural partners, ORCID and DataCite (Dasler, 2016). While this was useful for determining overall trends, we were limited in our ability to gain deeper understanding of factors affecting the adoption of PIDs globally and the service implications of those factors. We therefore undertook a deeper study of adoption of the PID services provided by ORCID. This amounted to an analysis of the trends and gaps evident in the statistical measures kept by ORCID, with a special focus on adoption across regions and disciplines, as those two factors were particularly relevant to future outreach and service development. We also provide a broader context for the discovered trends by identifying reference datasets to use for comparison.

In addition to pointing out areas of PID adoption success, the analysis also focussed our attention on areas for growth, in particular areas that could benefit from a further tailoring of outreach approaches and messages."