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ORCID

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Providers using this tag (3)

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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

TU WienUniversityHigher EducationEducationTechnical University1 API47.1

Thin 2 Limited public surface area

ORCIDAcademicIdentityResearchers16 APIs33.8 CrossrefCitationsDOIFundersIdentifiers1 API30.7

APIs with this tag (19)

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Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Helda DSpace REST APIPublic HAL REST API for Helda, the University's open institutional repository, running DSpace 7.6.2. Discov...48.9 TU Wien Research Data REST APIPublic REST API of the TU Wien Research Data repository, running InvenioRDM 14.0. Records, communities, aff...47.1 KU Leuven Curriculum Information (Curriculuminformatie) APIICTS Data Services index of academic curriculum and CV records — discipline codes, research topics and the ...45.1 White Rose Research Online OAI-PMHWhite Rose Research Online is the shared open-access outputs repository of the Universities of Leeds, Sheff...45.0 Illinois Data Bank Dataset MetadataThe campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-pr...42.9 PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace on Scholaris)PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository — the university's content, the university's ...39.9

Thin 12 Limited public surface area

Princeton Data Commons — DiscoveryPrinceton's research data repository, split into pdc_describe for deposit and description and pdc_discovery...39.1 EPFL Infoscience Institutional RepositoryInfoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSp...38.2 ORCID in Chalmers ResearchThe Chalmers Research CRIS surfaces ORCID iDs on researcher profiles and links out to the ORCID registry, e...38.1 FDAT Repository REST APIKeyless, read-only JSON REST API of FDAT, the university's institutional research data repository, operated...35.7 ORCID affiliation programme (UK ORCID consortium)The University of Liverpool Library operates an ORCID member integration through the Jisc-run UK ORCID cons...33.7 UQ eSpace REST APIREST API behind UQ eSpace, the institutional repository for UQ research outputs and datasets, operated on U...31.9 HAL — ENPC Open-Access Collection (tenant)ENPC's institutional open-access repository is the ENPC collection inside HAL, the French national open arc...30.3 Caltech Library FeedsA metadata service built and operated by Caltech Library (v1.6), harvesting its institutional repositories,...29.6 CaltechAUTHORS REST API and OAI-PMHCaltech's institutional publications repository, also on self-hosted InvenioRDM. Exposes the same REST reco...29.6 HAL Search API — SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE collectionThe HAL Solr search API scoped to Sorbonne University's collection at https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/sear...27.7 UOW Scholars (Symplectic Elements / Discovery tenancy)UOW Scholars is the university's public researcher-profile portal, running on Symplectic Elements with the ...27.7 UTMIK Repository (DSpace-CRIS) — OAI-PMH and RESTUTM's institutional knowledge repository, running DSpace-CRIS on utmik.utm.my (161.139.22.165, inside UTM's...26.3

Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Research Data Archive OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Bath Research Data Archive, an EPrints 3.4....22.5

Companies reaching this through an API (17)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “ORCID” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

California Institute of Technology Chalmers University of Technology EPFL KU Leuven Princeton University Sorbonne University Universiti Teknologi Malaysia University of Bath University of Calgary University of Helsinki University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Liverpool University of Queensland University of Sheffield University of Tübingen University of Wollongong École des Ponts ParisTech

Score breakdown

Frequency

35.4

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.1

spread across providers

Quality lift

45.6

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

0.0

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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