Frequently Asked Questions

How are new journal articles included in researchmesh newsletters?

To be automatically included in a newsletter monthly publication report, new journal articles must either have an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) associated in the publishers metadata or be added as a publicly visible work on an associated member’s ORCID profile.

A researcher’s ORCID profile must have publicly displayed name (given name and family name), otherwise their publications will be excluded from the newsletter.

Additionally, all journal articles must be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by the publisher in order to be automatically included in researchmesh newsletters and reports. We use the DOI as a single persistent identifier in order to avoid duplication when multiple researchers are co-authors on a publication together.

At present, the only kinds of new works added to researchmesh newsletters are journal articles and book chapters.

When an article is added to a researcher’s public ORCID profile, the metadata must include a year and month for the original publication date. researchmesh will add all new articles with a publication-date within the last six months. (This threshold averts the issue of individual researchers “taking over” or swamping the newsletter feed when they do major bulk updates to their ORCID profiles.)