ORCID US Community Awards

The ORCID US Community Awards encourage and provide recognition for participation, sharing, and achievements in the ORCID US Community. As we continually recognize contributions to our community, starting May 16, 2022, the ORCID US Community Awards cycle will be updated to be closer with the calendar year. The new award cycle will start December 1st and end November 30th (previously, the award cycle was from May to May). This change will give us the opportunity to recognize our awardees and others during our Annual Member Meeting in December. For the 2023 awards, the eligibility period will start May 16, 2022 and end on November 30, 2023. The award recipients will be announced at our Annual Member Meeting in December 2023. Also, we are updating the award categories. The "Most Active" award will be retired and new award categories will be added. These new award categories are reflected below. Please see notes at the bottom of this page for additional information.

Congratulations to our 2022 Award Recipients!

  • “Most Active” individual: Peter Mangiafico, Product Manager, Library Technology at Stanford University, with multiple postings and reads in the discussion forum. 
  • “Most Helpful” individual: Kelly Lockhart, Software Engineer at NASA Astrophysics Data System (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), nominated and recognized for their work in integrating NASA ADS with ORCID
    • Shout out to Amy Koshoffer at University of Cincinnati for sharing their work in integrating ORCID with their data systems.
    • Shout out to Christina Miskey at University of Nevada, Las Vegas for sharing and discussing their ORCID integrations.
    • Shout out to Jason Ronallo at North Carolina State University for sharing their knowledge and expertise of ORCID adoptions to other organizations.
    • Shout out to Yingting Zhang at Rutgers University for sharing their ORCID outreach work to the community.
    • Shout out to the Team at Stanford University for presenting and sharing their ORCID integrations at our “Writing to ORCID” community call.
  • Institutional Achievement:
    • Boise State University - Library-managed application to connect authenticated ORCID iDs with Boise State IDs
    • Denver Health and Hospital Authority - Internal application that allows DHHA researchers to connect their ORCID iD with the organization, display works, and build reports from ORCID works data
    • Drexel University - YAMZ metadata dictionary (allows for sign-in using ORCID)
    • Emory University - Central identity management integration to connect authenticated ORCID iDs with Emory IDs
    • Harvard Medical School - integration to display ORCID iDs in Salesforce profiles
    • Johns Hopkins University - integration with CRAEDL (Collaborative Research Administration Environment and Data Library) that collects authenticated ORCID iDs and write works to ORCID
    • New York University - integration with Local Contexts (displays authenticated ORCID iDs in user profiles)
    • Stanford University - CEDAR (Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval) (allows for sign-in using ORCID and displays authenticated ORCID iDs in user profiles)
    • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Climate Data Gateway at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) (allows for sign-in using ORCID)
    • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - GeoScience Data Exchange at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) (allows for sign-in using ORCID)
    • University of Connecticut - NMR Box platform for biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance software (allows for connecting authenticated ORCID iD to user profiles)
    • University of Florida - ORCID portal that allows UF researchers to connect their ORCID iD and send data from UF, such as grant funding information, to their ORCID record

Award Categories

  • "Most Helpful" individual* - Individual with the most nominations from peers in the community by November 30th will win a customized ORCID mug. All nominees will receive special recognition in the ORCID US Community Annual Newsletter and in the Annual Meeting in December.
  • Institutional Achievement - Institutions that have launched custom ORCID API integrations by November 30th will receive special recognition in the ORCID US Community Annual Newsletter and in the Annual Meeting in December.
  • Outstanding Outreach Effort of the Year - Institutions and/or individuals that have launched special outreach programs by November 30th will receive special recognition in the ORCID US Community Annual Newsletter and in the Annual Meeting in December.
  • Volunteers Recognition - Individuals who volunteered on ORCID US Community events by November 30th will be entered into a prize drawing and recognized in the Annual Meeting in December.

​*Nominate your peers for the “Most Helpful” individual award:

Has someone in the ORCID US Community been especially helpful to you? Maybe you watched a webinar presentation that stood out and gave you some good ideas. Maybe you read a post in the discussion forum that really helped you understand an ORCID process or scenario. If someone has been helpful to you in this way, please nominate that person for our ORCID US Community Awards “Most Helpful” individual category by completing this brief form by midnight on November 30th: https://goo.gl/forms/703xJJ3HMRBeLB2L2. The award recipient will be announced at the Annual Members Meeting in December, with all nominees receiving honorable mention.

All award winners must be ORCID US Community member institutions or employees of these institutions. Nominations for “Most Helpful” individual must come from employees of member institutions. Individuals may nominate someone at their own institution. An individual may not nominate another specific individual more than once per year. Individuals may not nominate themselves.

Past Winners

2021

  • “Most Active” individual: Christina Miskey, Scholarly Communication Librarian for Research Infrastructure at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with 2 posts in the discussion forum and 52 posts read this year!
  • “Most Helpful” individual: Lauren Di Monte, Assistant Dean for Digital & Research Strategies at University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, nominated for sharing her experience with ORCID adoption at the University of Rochester.
  • Institutional Involvement: Stanford University (for the third year in a row!) with 17 individuals plugged into the ORCID US Community discussion forum! 
  • Institutional Achievement:
    • California Digital Library – DMPTool (connects ORCID iD with researcher profiles)
    • Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) – MediaWiki (login with ORCID)
    • MIT – PhysioNet (connects ORCID iD with researcher profiles)
    • Nemours Foundation – DE-CTR ACCEL (Accelerating Clinical and Translational Research) Project (connects ORCID iD with researcher profile)
    • Pennsylvania State University – Researcher Metadata Database (writes employment and works to ORCID)
    • University of Arizona – KMap 1 (includes ORCID iD and relevant ORCID data in institutional knowledge map)
    • University of Washington – Department of Statistics (displays ORCID iD on faculty/staff profiles)
    • Wayne State University – Wayne State directory (displays ORCID iD on individual profiles)

2020

  • “Most Active” individual: Jennifer Davis,  Scholarship and Data Librarian at Augusta University with 11 posts in the ORCID US Community discussion forum this year
  • “Most Helpful” individual: Jane Scott, Manager of Digital Services and Technology Planning at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, received two nominations for sharing “insight and advice for central ORCID API integration.”
    • Shout out to Mark Bilby for one nomination as a leading advocate for ORCID adoption in the California State University system
    • Shout out to Jason Ronallo who also received nominations for sharing expertise and leading ORCID initiatives at North Carolina State University
  • Institutional Involvement: Stanford University, with 9 individuals from Stanford plugged into the ORCID US Community discussion forum
  • Institutional Achievement:

2019

  • “Most Active” individual: Elena Kazakova, Senior Business Analyst, University of Colorado Boulder with 6 posts in the ORCID US Community discussion forum 
  • “Most Helpful” individual: Jason Ronallo, Department Head, Digital Library Initiatives, North Carolina State University. Nomination: “Jason has been incredibly informative and generous in sharing his work with the community, and with [my institution] specifically when we have asked for examples for a similar ORCID connector implementation.” 
  • Institutional Involvement: Tie between Stanford University and Yale University, with 8 individuals from each institution plugged into the ORCID US Community discussion forum 
  • Institutional Achievement:

Note: We have retired some of the award categories since the start of these awards. These legacy awards are: 1) The “Institutional Involvement” award for the institution with the most individuals plugged in to the ORCID US Community discussion forum has been retired from the Awards program as of June 2021, due to the logistical inequities implied by the category (larger institutions have an advantage, since the larger the institution, the more people from that institution can participate in the discussion forum); and 2) The "Most Active" award for the most active individual in our ORCID US Community discussion forum has been retired from the Awards program as of May 2022, due to low activity in the discussion forum, and because this category had the least votes in the 2021 member survey.