Abstract

With the rapid adoption of ORCID in academia, the number of ORCID users has been growing significantly and more informetricians are recognizing the research value of ORCID profiles. However, the reliability of the conclusions in studies based on ORCID profiles is undermined by data quality issues, such as missing items, insufficient coverage of publications, unnormalized institution names, and duplicated registration. To facilitate efficient application of ORCID profiles in informetric research and possibly inspire new improvements to ORCID profile use strategies, this study investigates ORCID data availability on a large scale. The statistical results demonstrate that, due to very limited data verification functions and weak awareness at the users’ end to update their profiles regularly, most ORCID profiles have missing, inaccurate, or outdated information about education or work experience. It is suggested that a well-designed data collection strategy is necessary for informetrics studies to obtain samples with relatively complete and regularly updated profiles. Moreover, introducing more external data resources as essential supplements, especially those from publication databases, would help to improve the data quality of ORCID profiles, so as to draw better portraits of academic researchers around the world.

中文翻译：

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ORCID 是 CV 分析的可靠来源吗？探索 ORCID 学术档案的数据可用性

摘要

随着 ORCID 在学术界的迅速采用，ORCID 用户数量显着增长，越来越多的信息计量学家认识到 ORCID 配置文件的研究价值。然而，基于 ORCID 概况的研究结论的可靠性因数据质量问题而受到损害，例如缺失项目、出版物覆盖范围不足、机构名称不规范和重复注册。为了促进 ORCID 配置文件在信息计量研究中的有效应用，并可能激发 ORCID 配置文件使用策略的新改进，本研究大规模调查 ORCID 数据可用性。统计结果表明，由于数据验证功能非常有限，且用户端定期更新个人资料意识薄弱，大多数ORCID个人资料存在教育或工作经历信息缺失、不准确或过时的情况。建议信息计量研究需要设计良好的数据收集策略，以获得相对完整且定期更新概况的样本。此外，引入更多的外部数据资源作为必要的补充，特别是来自出版物数据库的数据资源，将有助于提高ORCID档案的数据质量，从而更好地描绘全球学术研究人员的肖像。