IOP Publishing is now requiring ORCID identifiers for all corresponding authors submitting their work to IOP Publishing-owned journals. The move is part of IOP Publishing's commitment to ensure researchers get full credit for their work.
Open Researcher and Contributor ID, known as ORCID, is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a unique digital name, or ID, which identifies researchers and scholars and distinguishes them from others with similar names. By connecting this iD to all their research activities, publications, and affiliations, researchers will be able to benefit from improved recognition, reduce reporting burdens, and ensure they receive full credit for their work.
In addition, with several major funders now requiring ORCID IDs as part of their grant application process, this could help reduce the administrative burden on researchers as well as providing scholarly benefits.
From September 11, 2017, IOP Publishing will require ORCID IDs from corresponding authors submitting to all its owned journals. ORCID IDs will be collected at submission, through the journals' ScholarOne system.
This will allow IOP Publishing to automatically update researchers' ORCID records when their articles are published and continue with their highly successful collaboration with Publons to acknowledge the vital work carried out by reviewers, helping to connect all their research activities, publications, and affiliations.
The announcement comes at the start of Peer Review Week, an industry-wide event that celebrates, and educates people about, peer review.
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