Comments on: Researchers: are you Wikipedia-compatible?

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:45:11 +0000

I’m sure that Mendeley and Zotero will begin to store ORCID IDs as publishers and others start to use them. I don’t know whether Academia.edu are on board yet, but they would be foolish to ignore this development.

By: Martin Poulter

Martin Poulter — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:50:49 +0000

Thanks for this point Andy- very useful and something I didn’t know much about. I suppose researchers are already using online tools such as Mendeley, Zotero or Academia.edu to create identifiers and profiles for themselves, serving the functions you mention. Is there any way these can be automatically mapped to ORCIDs?

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:07:01 +0000

One thing that researchers can do, which will help Wikipedia (and others) to disambiguate them from others with the same names (and unite their works if they change their name), is to register, free, for an ORCID identifier. This is like an ISBN or ISSN, but for authors of (or contributors to) papers, journal articles and other publications. People who are the subject of Wikipedia biographies can have their ORCID identifier included in the article about them, as part of the Authority Control template.

Any Wikipedia editor, too, can have an ORCID ID, and display it on their user page, in the same way.

My ORCID ID is 0000-0001-5882-6823.