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(Repost) Observing Growth in Popularity of ORCID

November 18, 2012 By Laure Haak

Posted by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 15 November 2012.  Full article and images are available on the UK Web Focus Blog.

The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) service was launched recently. From the ORCID Web site we learn that “ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized“

We would expect all public networked services to have an interest in monitoring take-up of the service, especially in the period after the launch. The ORCID team will be monitoring registrations on the service, but it is also possible to monitor the growth of a networked service by monitoring the links to the service.

The MajesticSEO tool can be used to monitor links to a Web site, and provide information on the number of links and domains as well as providing additional information such as the Alexa ranking the domains, link text used, resources linked to, etc.

The findings from the MajesticSEO tool taken on 15 November 2012 are illustrated. As can be seen there are currently 521 domains linking to the service, with a total of 11,923 links, 2,295 of which are from educational institutions. 

The current findings can be viewed on the MajesticSEO Web site (a free subscription is needed to view the findings). The findings for the top ten referring domains are shown below:

#  Referring Domains Backlinks Alexa Rank Citation Flow Trust Flow
1 hull.name 2,462 n/a 24 24
2 figshare.com 2,086 279,286 27 22
3 upc.edu 2,049 21,837 63 65
4 neilernst.net 755 n.a 17 10
5 duraspace.org 410 718,279 47 49
6 knowledgespeak.com 351 n/a 33 25
7 knowledgenavigator.ca 241 n/a 9 5
8 datadryad.org 197 n/a 30 26
9 mchabib,cin 170 n/a 22 16

10

wordpress.com

144

22

95

9

The hull.name domains appears to me an anomaly.  Following discussions with the owner of this domain, a researcher at the University of Manchester it appears he is not carrying out any ORCID development or harvesting activities, so perhaps there was a flaw in the data collection carried out by the MajesticSEO service. The other entries in the table give an indication of the organisations which seems to be early adopters of ORCID or, perhaps in the case of WordPress.com, suggest where blog posts about ORCID are being discussed.

Sorting the table by Alexa ranking shows the most highly ranked Web services which contain links to the ORCID site.

 

# Referring Domains Alexa Rank Backlinks Citation Flow Trust Flow
1 google.com 2 1 99 99
2 blogspot.com 11 37 98 94
3 wordpress.com 22 144 95 93
4 slideshare.net 177 1 79 77
5 guardian.co.uk 192 6 91 88
6 blogspot.com.es 238 4 62 52
7 hatena.ne.jp 281 1 82 69
8 blogspot.co.uk 290 2 64

55

9 typepad.com 317 21 87

83

10 blogspot.de 342 4 67 54

 

The presence of two popular cloud-based blog platforms, WordPress.com and Blogspot.com, suggest that researchers are either talking about ORCID on these blogs or perhaps even linking to ORCID records from blog posts. However the number of links are currently too small to draw any significant conclusions from the findings.

But perhaps of most interest is the geographical display of take-up of ORCID IDs.  The global map probably reflects the location of leading research institutions and publishers of research journals. But zooming in on the UK provides a more interesting view of the location of Web sites which have links to the ORCID domain.  Bath is currently represented by 22 links from the UKOLN Web site and one from the Ariadne ejournal. As mentioned above, the map is skewed by the large numbers of links from the hull.name domain which is based in Manchester which has 2,462 links. Two locations for Scotland are shown: 9 links from the Edinburgh University Web site, 3 from EDINA and 3 from the DCC. The other location is the city of ‘Heriot’ (which actually refers to Heriot-Watt University which is based in Edinburgh).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It will be interesting to observe how this map develops as ORCID takes off.

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