
Figure 1
ORCID infrastructure: services and usages.

Figure 2
Number of ORCID records per year. The bar plot indicates the annual increment, while the line reports the total number of ORCID iDs through the years. (source: ORCID’s public data file, October 2021).

Figure 3
Fake records returned by the query “escorts” (a) and details of a fake record (b).

Figure 4
Overloaded ORCID record associated to a research organisation.

Figure 5
Referral to a syntactically wrong ORCID iD.

Figure 6
Unrestricted ORCID field in Zenodo.
