Nature Journals to Authors: Get Hip to ORCID

Researchers submitting manuscripts to the Nature family of journals, as well as other Springer titles need to register for a unique author identifier.

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© BRYAN SATALINOFollowing in the footsteps of other major scientific publishers, Springer Nature announced this week that it would require researchers who submit manuscripts to dozens of the journals it publishes to register for an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID iD). The framework is designed to reduce cases of name ambiguity among authors, while making it easier for scientists to link their identities to their institutions, contributions, and funders.

According to Springer Nature, authors will have six months to register with ORCID. “We want our authors to share their discoveries and receive proper credit for doing so,” the publisher said in a statement, “which is why we have introduced a six-month trial to mandate ORCID iDs for authors publishing across 46 of our journals effective as of April 27, 2017.”

Springer Nature said that it will monitor the reactions of researchers over the six-month trial period.

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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