Tools

Nine tools organized around three workflows — author disambiguation, researcher profiling, and cross-server identifier chaining:

orcid_search_researchers

Search the ORCID registry with structured field parameters mapped to Solr field queries.

• Structured params — given_name, family_name, affiliation, keyword, ror_id, doi, pmid — are ANDed into a Solr query automatically
• doi and pmid translate to doi-self and pmid-self field queries: "who has linked this work to their ORCID record?"
• query appends raw Solr to the generated clause for advanced use
• ror_id values (full URLs like https://ror.org/00f54p054) are quoted internally to handle Solr's colon parsing
• Returns expanded-search results with inline name and institution data — no follow-up profile fetch needed for basic discovery
• Use this for precise field-anchored lookups; use orcid_resolve_researcher for ambiguous names needing ranked disambiguation

orcid_get_profile

Fetch a researcher's public person section by ORCID iD.

• Accepts bare ORCID iD (0000-0001-2345-6789) or full URI form
• Returns name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, addresses, and external identifiers (Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, Loop, etc.)
• External identifiers are embedded in the person response — no separate round-trip
• Entry point for building a researcher dossier before fetching works or affiliations

orcid_get_works

Retrieve the works list for a researcher.

• Returns work summaries: title, type, publication date, journal name, and all external identifiers (DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, ISBN, etc.)
• Returns the first 50 works by default; workCount reports the total available, and prolific records are paged with offset plus the returned nextOffset (or raise limit, max 1000). truncated flags when more works remain
• Set include_external_ids to false to drop identifier lists when only titles, types, and dates are needed
• External IDs are returned in formats consumable by downstream servers (Crossref, PubMed, arXiv)
• Works list is summaries only — chain to the relevant server for full metadata or abstracts

orcid_get_work_detail

Fetch full detail records for 1–100 works in a single bulk request using the ORCID bulk works endpoint.

• put_codes is an array of 1–100 put-codes from orcid_get_works
• Single round-trip regardless of how many put-codes are requested
• Returns abstracts, all contributors with CRediT roles, the complete external ID list, citation metadata (BibTeX or other formats when deposited), journal title, and URL for each work
• Per-record errors (not-found or inaccessible put-codes) arrive as errors entries — the remaining works still resolve

orcid_get_affiliations

Fetch affiliation records by type, using a single /activities call filtered client-side.

• types controls which sections to include: employment, education, invited-positions, distinctions, memberships, qualifications, services, or all
• Default is ['employment', 'education'] (the 90% case)
• Returns organization names, disambiguated org IDs (ROR/GRID/Ringgold), departments, roles, and date ranges
• One upstream call regardless of how many types are requested — the /activities endpoint returns all sections at once

orcid_get_funding

Fetch funding records for a researcher.

• Returns grants, contracts, awards, and salary awards with funder names, grant numbers, and funding periods
• Funding data is self-reported and often sparse — absence does not mean no funding
• Useful when it exists; high-value (grant numbers, funder IDs) but a thin single-endpoint wrapper

orcid_get_peer_reviews

Fetch peer review activity for a researcher.

• Returns convening organizations (journals/publishers), reviewer role (reviewer, editor, chair, etc.), review type, completion dates, and ISSN-keyed group identifiers
• Useful for assessing editorial activity and journal affiliations

orcid_get_research_resources

List research resources associated with a researcher.

• Covers compute allocations, equipment access, lab facilities, data resources, and clinical study registrations
• A newer ORCID section that is sparsely populated — most researchers have no entries, and absence does not imply none exist
• Entries are typically deposited by resource-allocation systems (e.g. ACCESS, XSEDE) rather than self-reported
• Returns resource title, hosting organization (with disambiguated org ID), external identifiers (often a portal URI), and access period

orcid_resolve_researcher

Disambiguate an author name to a verified ORCID iD.

• Returns ranked candidates (5 by default, up to 20 via rows) with transparent disambiguation signals: name match type (exact/partial/other-name), institution overlap flag, and anchor type (doi/pmid/none)
• When doi or pmid is provided, uses doi-self or pmid-self as an anchor — researchers who have linked that work to their ORCID record are near-deterministic matches
• Falls back to a relaxed query (dropping affiliation) if the initial candidate set is empty
• No synthetic scores — raw signal fields only, so callers can apply their own ranking logic

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