The practice of collecting metadata about research outputs is made much easier by the use of unique identifiers. Not only the use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) as items on which to match or to use in web services such as social media metrics, but the institution-wide implementation of Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCIDs) for all scholars enables easy sharing of data related to researchers affiliated with the organization.
It is hoped that with widespread adoption of author identifiers such as ORCID by both publishers and scientists could make the identification of a research organization’s published output a near-completely automated process.
