Short Reports

Persistent Identifiers for Contributors and Institutions

  • Lena Fischer
  • Rafael Moreno
  • Yuki Tanaka
Published
December 1, 2025
Open Access
Persistent Identifiers for Contributors and Institutions

Abstract

Names are ambiguous, affiliations change, and both are recorded as free text far more often than as identifiers. This article reviews the identifier landscape for people and organisations, and what a journal gains by requiring them at submission.

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