Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Start Date
5-6-2026 10:00 AM
End Date
5-6-2026 10:30 AM
Description
As scholarly publishers strive to ensure the integrity of the scholarly record, verified author affiliations have become a key metric to assist with assessment of manuscript submissions. For instance, a recent article in Nature used author affiliations to identify problematic research practices at particular institutions, and a recent STM report on Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing points out that a verified author affiliation valuable as it links an individual to an organisation, providing a route for accountability where there would otherwise be none.
Knowing that there is a confirmed link between an author and a reputable research organization is a signal to journal editors and others that the manuscript is legitimate, but at the same time, that organizational link isn't a guarantee that there are no problems with the submission. Moreover, there are many good reasons why a submitting author might not currently be affiliated with an organization or might choose to use a personal email address for a submission, which can make affiliation verification difficult.
This short presentation will have two parts: first, we'll give a brief introduction to instances where ROR, the Research Organization Registry, is used to help verify author affiliations, and second, we'll conduct a brief live survey of participants to ask for further ideas on how ROR can best support research integrity and how scholarly publishing systems can further institutional verification without requiring or privileging institutional affiliation.
How Systems Use the Research Organization Registry (ROR) for Research Integrity
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
As scholarly publishers strive to ensure the integrity of the scholarly record, verified author affiliations have become a key metric to assist with assessment of manuscript submissions. For instance, a recent article in Nature used author affiliations to identify problematic research practices at particular institutions, and a recent STM report on Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing points out that a verified author affiliation valuable as it links an individual to an organisation, providing a route for accountability where there would otherwise be none.
Knowing that there is a confirmed link between an author and a reputable research organization is a signal to journal editors and others that the manuscript is legitimate, but at the same time, that organizational link isn't a guarantee that there are no problems with the submission. Moreover, there are many good reasons why a submitting author might not currently be affiliated with an organization or might choose to use a personal email address for a submission, which can make affiliation verification difficult.
This short presentation will have two parts: first, we'll give a brief introduction to instances where ROR, the Research Organization Registry, is used to help verify author affiliations, and second, we'll conduct a brief live survey of participants to ask for further ideas on how ROR can best support research integrity and how scholarly publishing systems can further institutional verification without requiring or privileging institutional affiliation.