Author associated with someone else's ORCID

[Daniel-Mietchen]

In this version, the Wikidata item Repeated Iron-Soot Exposure and Nose-to-brain Transport of Inhaled Ultrafine Particles. (Q47638090) corresponding to the paper Repeated Iron–Soot Exposure and Nose-to-brain Transport of Inhaled Ultrafine Particles has an author (P50) statement pointing to Q90909359 (which back then was labeled "Kent E Pinkerton") with a "series ordinal (P1545)" of 8 and had an ORCID (P496) statement that pointed to https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6868-7572, which is largely empty but features the name "Emilia Laing" and no Kent Pinkerton.

Still in that same version of Repeated Iron-Soot Exposure and Nose-to-brain Transport of Inhaled Ultrafine Particles. (Q47638090), there is an author name string (P2093) statement "Emilia A Laing" with series ordinal 2.

The statements on Q47638090 point to the Europe PMC API call https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:28914166%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json, which has the above ORCID (of Emilia Laing) associated with Kent Pinkerton (in position 8) and no ORCID for the second author (Emilia Laing)

A similar situation was in Q89716066, whose Europe PMC entry also attaches Emilia Laing's ORCID to Kent Pinkerton's author position: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:31645209%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json and no ORCID to Emilia Laing's position.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is another example (see via https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q98164105&oldid=1369315309 ): In https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:32727882%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json , the ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-2889 of Alfredo Molinolo is associated with Napoleone Ferrara, who is listed just after Molinolo in the author list

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:28661075%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json Wikidata counterpart: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q40141441&type=revision&diff=1563020955&oldid=1486970622&diffmode=source

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is another interesting case — a published correction due to a valid ORCID having been incorrectly assigned to author in the original publication.

Wikidata has only correct information in this case:

• https://scholia.toolforge.org/orcid/0000-0001-7458-027X
• https://scholia.toolforge.org/orcid/0000-0002-0480-5522

Nevertheless, there should probably be a deprecation statement about the wrong ORCID.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Side note: As per

• https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/issues/1260#issuecomment-570432024 ,

  NLM does accept author identifiers when they are supplied by the publisher with the citation data.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

There is a section "2.2.2 Wrongly-attributed ORCID iDs" in the paper "We Can Make a Better Use of ORCID: Five Observed Misapplications", which also touches upon downstream uses as in "A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people}.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is another paper about data quality issues in ORCID, including use of incorrect identifiers: "Abuse of ORCID’s weaknesses by authors who use paper mills".

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another published correction due to an incorrect ORCID: https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.078885.121 .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is another case: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-353X is for "Chung-Hsing Lin" but was associated in Wikidata with "Shih-Ann Chen":

Not sure what the precise reason is here, but could well be one of those metadata mixups of the kind presented above.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another case: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-2156 is for "YaoTing Chang", yet Wikidata had it for "Shih-Lin Chang".

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Next example: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-2992 is for "Eline Vegter" but in https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:32002631%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json , it is associated with "Adrian A Voors", which triggered the creation of Adriaan A Voors (Q89459310) with that ORCID ID.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example, seen via https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90224273 and https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q63951761&type=revision&diff=1736391410&oldid=1482385309&diffmode=source :

• https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000157 has author Didacus B. Namanya linked to ORCID 0000-0001-9606-4671 but that ORCID is for some "Eric Williams" (which has been reflected in Wikidata through these changes, leaving the ORCID information intact), whereas the ORCID for Didacus B. Namanya (Q63443322) is 0000-0001-6906-4617.

Interestingly, the two ORCIDs differ in two ways, highlighted here in bold: 0000-0001-9606-4671 vs. 0000-0001-6906-4617.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example: https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319865414 and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8855-4176

Seen via https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/work_item_oauth.php?id=Q90826707

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example: https://doi.org/10.1002/JCLA.22235 lists Majid Ghayour Mobarhan with the ORCID 0000-0002-1606-4610 but that ORCID is associated with " samaneh khakpouri":

Seen via https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?precise=0&name=Majid+Ghayour-Mobarhan&doit=Look+for+author&limit=500&filter=wdt%3AP50+wd%3AQ86082652&filter_authors=1 :

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example: https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1021/ACSSYNBIO.6B00372 lists http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4910-2222 as being associated with Jay D. Keasling but that ORCID is actually about Jesus F. Barajas:

In contrast, the actual Jay D. Keasling (Q1684333) has the ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4170-6088 :

Seen via https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?doit=Look+for+author&name=Jay%20D%20Keasling and https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q87846476 :

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is another case, with https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1371/JOURNAL.PMED.1002467

      {
        "ORCID": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7125-9998",
        "authenticated-orcid": true,
        "given": "Sonia",
        "family": "Lewycka",
        "sequence": "additional",
        "affiliation": []
      },

listing an author named "Sonia Lewycka" tagged with the ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7125-9998 , which is associated with someone named "Charles Mwansambo":

The actual paper does not list anyone named "Charles Mwansambo" amongst the authors:

I discovered this via https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?limit=50&name=Sonia+Lewycka (screenshot):

In there, two candidates are listed for "Sonia Lewycka":

• https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q86820528 with https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5923-9468 (which resolves to "Sonia Lewycka")
• https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q89488308 with https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7125-9998 (which resolves to "Charles Mwansambo")

The latter lists two papers, one of which looks suspicious because the author "Sonia Lewycka" appears twice in https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/work_item_oauth.php?id=Q46301047 :

It turns out that the author disambiguation was done automatically (by LargeDatasetBot, which used ORCIDs for disambiguation). That workflow was based on PMC Europe data, as per the reference cited for the Sonia Lewycka disambiguation: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:29206833%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json .

            {
              "fullName": "Lewycka S",
              "firstName": "Sonia",
              "lastName": "Lewycka",
              "initials": "S",
              "authorId": {
                "type": "ORCID",
                "value": "0000-0002-5923-9468"
              },
              "authorAffiliationDetailsList": {
                "authorAffiliation": [
                  {
                    "affiliation": "Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom."
                  }
                ]
              }
            },
            {
              "fullName": "Lewycka S",
              "firstName": "Sonia",
              "lastName": "Lewycka",
              "initials": "S",
              "authorId": {
                "type": "ORCID",
                "value": "0000-0002-7125-9998"
              },
              "authorAffiliationDetailsList": {
                "authorAffiliation": [
                  {
                    "affiliation": "Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom."
                  }
                ]
              }
            },

Note that the ORCIDs are different: the upper one is correct, the lower one not. So it seems that PMC Europe did try to sanitize the data but did not succeed in this case.

For the sake of completeness, let's also check the data at the version of record:

So here, the wrong ORCID is present again, and only that.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another one: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0069-2018 ( https://www.scielo.br/j/rsbmt/a/t9mXhGbTLkYyYgHWHzb7K6m/?lang=en ) has ORCID for Tamires Vital https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3512-7696 associated with Mariana Hecht, as per https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1590/0037-8682-0069-2018 and https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3512-7696

[Daniel-Mietchen]

For an example where such author misidentification would disrupt workflows, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Orcbot .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another one: https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1080/23294515.2019.1593257 associates author Kevin P. Weinfurt with the ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-4353 which is for Flavia Kiweewa Matovu.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

For an example where such author misidentification would disrupt workflows, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Orcbot .

On that bot's talk page, there is an example for which it is stated that the ORCID in question has been "locked".

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example case:

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?doit=Look+for+author&name=H.%20Joosten

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q93057113

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/work_item_oauth.php?id=Q93057117

https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13092

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6336-327X

https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1111/plb.13092

[Daniel-Mietchen]

The most recent examples all had "authenticated-orcid" set to false, but mishaps happen with true ones too, e.g. as per the entry of Jan 3, 2023.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another one, again with "authenticated-orcid" set to false:

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?doit=Look+for+author&name=Gerardo%20Moreno

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q57912512

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q57912512&filter=p%3AP50+%5Bps%3AP50+wd%3AQ57912512%3B+pq%3AP1932+%27Gerardo+Moreno%27%5D

https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1016/J.ECOSER.2019.100896

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9459-1128

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is a case where the preprint has the wrong ORCID for one of the authors (Jonathan M. Levine), presumably because of an error in the manuscript submission process to bioRxiv.

The ORCID given there (see bottom left in the above screenshot) is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-6062, which has the following content:

The information thus has propagated — via Crossref — to the ORCID profile of the person associated with the ORCID ID stated in bioRxiv.

The correct ORCID for the author of that manuscript would have been https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2857-7904, which does not list that preprint (nor the journal version) and currently looks as follows:

Interestingly, the error did not propagate to the journal version of the manuscript, presumably because the journal does not require authors to submit their ORCIDs.

In any case, the authorship assignment has been corrected at Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q56979617&diff=1939235583&oldid=1856036298&diffmode=source.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Adding screenshots of the Wikidata curation pages

• https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?doit=Look+for+author&name=Jonathan%20M%20Levine
• https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q96251130

that triggered the discovery of this incongruency and the Wikidata edit to fix it:

and

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another curious example: https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?doit=Look+for+author&name=Senjie%20Lin

That comment researcher 0000-0002-0937-6069 Feng Yang? indicates doubt as to whether the ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0937-6069 for someone named Feng Yang should be used on an item for someone named Senjie Lin.

The ORCID profile for that Feng Yang is suspicious in that all the papers are listed with an author string Senjie Lin but only one with Feng Yang:

At Crossref, that paper only lists one ORCID, and that is the correct one https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8831-6111 for Senjie Lin.

The mixup is in the paper https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1111/jpy.13031 where Senjie Lin is associated with the ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0937-6069 of Feng Yang :

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I have not fixed that Senjie Lin / Feng Yang mixup in Wikidata yet, as I will try to do this via nanopublications.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Did not see a quick way to do this via nanopublications, so only fixed Senjie Lin / Feng Yang on Wikidata. This turned out a bit more complicated, since there was another item for Senjie Lin, which appeared to be about the same person, so I merged the two entries.

As a result, we now have Q95840069 for Feng Yang, as per https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q95840069

and Q36678842 for Senjie Lin, as per https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q36678842

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Next one: mixup between Armando Pacheco and Washington Ipenza, as per https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/names_oauth.php?name=Armando%20J.%20Cabrera%20Pacheco and https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q5666452

I could not find the source of the problem but the edits that brought it to Wikidata:

• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q41585650&diff=1743294461&oldid=1625751928&diffmode=source
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q40430972&diff=1743294451&oldid=1493526284

Fixed it with these two edits:

• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q41585650&diff=1976472096&oldid=1743294461&diffmode=source
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q40430972&diff=1976472091&oldid=1839286113&diffmode=source

[Melissa37]

The statements on Q47638090 point to the Europe PMC API call https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:28914166%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json, which has the above ORCID (of Emilia Laing) associated with Kent Pinkerton (in position 8) and no ORCID for the second author (Emilia Laing)

A similar situation was in Q89716066, whose Europe PMC entry also attaches Emilia Laing's ORCID to Kent Pinkerton's author position: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=EXT_ID:31645209%20AND%20SRC:MED&resulttype=core&format=json and no ORCID to Emilia Laing's position.

Europe PMC pulls in ORCIDs from PubMed, which are provided by publisher. This traces back to the publisher site

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example:

• https://doi.org/10.2337/dc20-0028 has two authors listed with the ORCID 0000-0002-8541-8734 of Feifei Cheng:

This is reflected in https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/https://doi.org/10.2337/dc20-0028 :

Seen via https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=88 for https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q90942893 and https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/author_item_oauth.php?id=Q97527382 :

Fixed on Wikidata

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another example, which I became aware of via this message:

• in https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/https://doi.org/10.1186/S40246-019-0246-Y , last author Nam Keum Kim is associated with https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-819X , itself associated with "Jeongyong Lee", i.e. the first author of that paper (stated as " Jeong Yong Lee".

The same error appears in Europe PMC, from where it had found its way into Wikidata.

I made seven edits to fix this on Wikidata: