Crossref authenticated-orcid
Nick Veenstra
A colleague of mine published her first article which showed up in the crossref api with the author property “authenticated-orcid” as false. She received a Crossref email asking permission to add the publication to orcid, but before answering that, we saw that OpenAlex had already harvested the record and matched the author solely on name. The publication was affiliated to another author with the same last name and initial. I’m assuming that the “authenticated-orcid” property can only be true or false, but it might be valuable to also have a value "pending" so that name matching is postponed. In the current situation the burden is put with the researcher to fix this which isn't a good first impression. It seems I'm not allowed to post on the crossref forum to ask about it there unfortunately.
Martyn Rittman
I'm with Crossref. The process of authenticating an orcid isn't related to orcid autoupdate (where an author confirms their orcid), it's something a publisher can do, usually prior to sending us their metadata. See https://info.orcid.org/documentation/api-tutorials/api-tutorial-get-and-authenticated-orcid-id/ for the steps they need to take.
Sorry you couldn't post to our forum. Anyone can create an account and there shouldn't be any reason you can't post. Drop me an email if you want to follow up.
Best,
Martyn
A colleague of mine published her first article which showed up in the crossref api with the author property “authenticated-orcid” as false. She received a Crossref email asking permission to add the publication to orcid, but before answering that, we saw that OpenAlex had already harvested the record and matched the author solely on name. The publication was affiliated to another author with the same last name and initial. I’m assuming that the “authenticated-orcid” property can only be true or false, but it might be valuable to also have a value "pending" so that name matching is postponed. In the current situation the burden is put with the researcher to fix this which isn't a good first impression. It seems I'm not allowed to post on the crossref forum to ask about it there unfortunately.
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