Is Mandatory ORCID a Violation of an Author’s Freedoms and Rights?

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is supposed to exclusively be an author identification tool. In this letter, I argue that the mandatory requirement to have an ORCID for the submission of an academic paper may constitute a violation of an author’s rights if it prevents them from the free and unhindered submission of a paper to a journal, especially if their identity is sufficiently unique to distinguish them from other academics with similar names, or if other websites would be able to confirm their identity. ORCID is a valuable tool to fortify one aspect of publishing’s integrity. However, by barring entry of an author during the submission process, it would be essentially functioning against open science principles.

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2020European Science Editing 2021Retractions, Fake Peer Reviews, and Paper Mills 2020An Alert to COVID-19 Literature in Predatory Publishing Venues 2016What Rights Do Authors Have?2021Abuse of ORCID’s weaknesses by authors who use paper mills

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