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ORCID

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Providers using this tag (2)

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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
TU WienUniversityHigher EducationEducationTechnical University1 API56.2
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
CrossrefCitationsDOIFundersIdentifiers1 API31.6

APIs with this tag (19)

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Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
TU Wien Research Data REST APIPublic REST API of the TU Wien Research Data repository, running InvenioRDM 14.0. Records, communities, aff...56.2Helda DSpace REST APIPublic HAL REST API for Helda, the University's open institutional repository, running DSpace 7.6.2. Discov...54.9
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
KU Leuven Curriculum Information (Curriculuminformatie) APIICTS Data Services index of academic curriculum and CV records — discipline codes, research topics and the ...51.1Illinois Data Bank Dataset MetadataThe campus research data repository, built and run in-house by the University Library (github.com/medusa-pr...48.8University of Groningen Research Database OAI-PMHKeyless OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint operated by the University on its own domain. Verified liv...46.7White Rose Research Online OAI-PMHWhite Rose Research Online is the shared open-access outputs repository of the Universities of Leeds, Sheff...44.7Researcher Metadata Database (RMD) APIPenn State University Libraries' faculty and research metadata service, built and run in-house with OSVPR a...44.2University of York Research Portal OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting on the University's own registrable domain. The Identify response names the reposito...43.7EPFL Infoscience Institutional RepositoryInfoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSp...42.6Research Repository UCD — OAI-PMH 2.0Keyless, anonymous OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for UCD's open-access institutional repository. Verified...42.5Princeton Data Commons — DiscoveryPrinceton's research data repository, split into pdc_describe for deposit and description and pdc_discovery...42.1
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Maastricht University Research Portal OAI-PMHKeyless OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint operated by Maastricht University on its own domain. Verif...37.9PRISM Institutional Repository (DSpace on Scholaris)PRISM is the University of Calgary's institutional repository — the university's content, the university's ...36.1UQ eSpace REST APIREST API behind UQ eSpace, the institutional repository for UQ research outputs and datasets, operated on U...34.8HAL — ENPC Open-Access Collection (tenant)ENPC's institutional open-access repository is the ENPC collection inside HAL, the French national open arc...33.2Caltech Library FeedsA metadata service built and operated by Caltech Library (v1.6), harvesting its institutional repositories,...32.1CaltechAUTHORS REST API and OAI-PMHCaltech's institutional publications repository, also on self-hosted InvenioRDM. Exposes the same REST reco...32.1HAL Search API — SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE collectionThe HAL Solr search API scoped to Sorbonne University's collection at https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/sear...29.8
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....24.6

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 EPFL KU Leuven Maastricht University Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Sorbonne University University College Dublin University of Bath University of Calgary University of Groningen University of Helsinki University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Queensland University of Sheffield University of York École des Ponts ParisTech

Score breakdown

Frequency
34.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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