ORCID Presentations at Charleston Conference Asia
Breaking Down Silos: A Roundtable discussion on ORCID in Editorial Research Management Workflows and Beyond
ORCID Engagement Manager Estelle Cheng presented a panel with former Editor-in-Chief at GigaScience Press Scott Edmunds and Education University of Hong Kong Director of Institutional Research Jesse SiZhe Xiao entitled “Breaking Down Silos: A Roundtable discussion on ORCID in Editorial Research Management Workflows and Beyond,” which outlined tangible benefits of the adoption of PIDs by journal editors and university research administrators. Watch the live recorded session and download the presentation.
The Japan ORCID Consortium: a collaborative approach to bring international visibility to Japan research
ORCID Engagement Lead Brian Minihan gave a lightning round session with Kosuke Tanabe of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Fujiko Uehara of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) entitled “The Japan ORCID Consortium: a collaborative approach to bring international visibility to Japan research.” This presentation detailed the use case of universities, national ORCID consortia, such as the Japan ORCID consortium of 23 institutions, working with ORCID in a community of practice—a rarity in Asia. Watch the live recorded session and download the presentation.
This year, ORCID participated in the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia, held 26-28 January in Bangkok. The Charleston Conference is renowned for fostering cross-sector dialogue between librarians, publishers, vendors, and platform providers. The 2026 conference theme, “Between Tides: Navigating the Open Seas,” perfectly aligns with ORCID’s commitment to providing open infrastructure in a shifting global research landscape.
While ORCID is well known for providing free individual persistent identifiers to researchers, our organizational membership model is less understood in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This membership model is vital, as it allows organizations to synchronize and contribute trusted information directly to the ORCID Registry via our API.
The institutional adoption gap in the Asia Pacific region
About 40% of ORCID’s 20-million-plus records belong to researchers in the APAC region, yet only 10% of ORCID member organizations are located there. Consequently, APAC researchers, specifically those in Asia, miss out on the reduced administrative burden enjoyed by peers in other regions, where relatively more universities, funders, and national CRIS systems are (fully) integrated with ORCID.
To achieve our vision of globally connected and uniquely identified research, we must increase regional institutional adoption. The Charleston Asia conference provided a powerful opportunity to engage with the local librarians, publishers, and vendors at the forefront of this effort. Working alongside them allows us to advance two major themes of our new four-year strategic plan: Connecting Research Information and Broadening our Community.
Shared focus: equity, inclusivity, and research integrity
The 2026 conference theme aligns with ORCID’s commitment to providing open infrastructure in a shifting global research landscape. Beyond open infrastructure, two recurring topics at the conference mirrored ORCID’s core values. The first was Equity and Inclusivity, driving us to proactively empowering all members of the global research community. The second was Trust & Integrity, specifically addressing the rapidly growing impact of misinformation on publishing.
ORCID’s strategic priorities directly address both areas:
- Equity & Inclusivity: Our commitment to global equity drives our strategic goals to broaden our community and increase global participation. In 2022 we launched the Global Participation Program and in 2023 launched ORCID Regional Consortia to actively expanded ORCID Communities of Practice in underrepresented regions where there are gaps in ORCID adoption.
- Trust & Integrity: An ORCID integration is the key benefit of institutional membership. Member institutions use the member API to connect their 3rd party systems and add data with institutional provenance, or Trust Markers, to their researchers’ ORCID records, providing value and visibility. In scholarly publishing, it enables journals to confirm an author’s identity during the article submission process, which empowers editors to verify the reliability of the data linked to that author, safeguarding the scholarly record against potential AI-generated fraud.
For researchers in Asia, having ORCID means more than simply being identified—it ensures they and their research are visibly connected to the international scholarly community. This can only be achieved by local libraries, publishers, and vendors to adopt ORCID, building interoperability between regional and global research infrastructures.
Our participation in the inaugural Charleston Conference Asia underscores our commitment to ensuring that the “open seas” of research are navigable for everyone, regardless of geography or institutional resources. By working hand‑in‑hand with the research community in Asia, we are advancing toward a future where institutional adoption of ORCID across the region continues to grow, as well as fostering open research infrastructure.
Learn more about what else ORCID is doing in Asia by registering for ORCID in Action: Connecting Asian Research on 30 June. Organizations seeking ORCID membership by sharing knowledge and pooling resources in a cost effective way can learn more about joining or forming a consortium here.
