Use Google Scholar citations to update your ORCiD profile

There are many and ever growing reasons to create, populate and maintain an ORCiD unique researcher and contributor identifier and profile, but a barrier can be spending the time to populate your profile with your complete works, especially if they were created or published before the publisher was integrated with ORCiD. ORCiD is integrated with a number of databases, such MLA International Bibliography, Scopus and The Lens, from which you can import citations or patents. Still you may not find as many of your works in these databases as are cited by Google Scholar. Though Google Scholar is not yet integrated with ORCiD, you can export citations from your Google Scholar profile to BibTeX, and then import that file to your ORCiD profile. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions with screen shots for using this method to build out your ORCiD profile.

CRediT: expanding recognition for 14 different contributor roles

In Beyond Publication – Increasing Opportunities for Recognizing All Research Contributions, Alice Meadows writes about CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy, and ORCiD , the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, as tools to expand recognition for a broader range of contributions. Besides financial and market factors, institutional reward systems that elevate prestige and limited types of labor also reinforce a closed knowledge production system. In fact, producing works of scholarship and creativity is often a collaborative effort involving multiple roles. Accurate attribution for the different forms of labor that produce scholarly outputs is one step towards recognizing the range of those outputs. CRediT standardizes 14 contributor roles, including conceptualization, data curation, funding acquisition and software, among others. ORCiD has a profile section for multiple types of affiliations through Memberships and Service, and it supports profile population connections for different work types, such as manual, online resource, research tool, test, etc.. In addition to CRediT, ORCiD is integrated with Publons to include peer review work in a scholar’s profile.