Following a successful trial in 2017 across 46 Springer Nature journals (including 14 Nature-branded journals, 10 BMC journals and 22 Springer journals), which saw the use of ORCID identifiers mandated for corresponding authors of primary research manuscripts, Springer Nature continues to avidly support the take up of ORCID, the unique digital identifier for scholarly authors.
Beginning August 28, 2018, not only will all 27 Nature Research journals and all 18 Nature Reviews journals apply this mandate, but it will be extended immediately to some content type beyond primary research. Nature and Nature Communications are to follow in due course.
With over 5 million users registered to date, using an ORCID iD makes it easier for authors to claim ownership of a paper and for the scientific community to correctly attribute and reward authorship.
Springer Nature has also been running a 12-month pilot campaign to encourage Computer Science proceedings authors and editors to submit their work with an ORCID iD. This campaign, which simply saw participants enter into a raffle for a book token, has seen the number of LNCS books with at least one author or editor with an ORCID iD increase from 48% in 2017 to 85% in 2018.
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