Paloma Marin Arraiza
Paloma Marín Arraiza holds a degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Scientific Information and Communication, both from the University of Granada (Spain). She earned her PhD in Information Science from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP, Brazil), with a thesis on data modelling for enhanced publications. She also has specific training in data governance, data protection, and artificial intelligence. Before joining ORCID, she worked in research libraries in Germany and Austria, where she focused on managing non-textual research outputs and persistent identifiers. Since March 2020, she has been part of the ORCID team, where she currently serves as Associate Director of Engagement. In addition, she is a guest lecturer in Research Data Management and Data Stewardship courses in Spain and Austria, and serves on the editorial and review boards of several diamond open-access journals in the field of information science.
Session
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) play a vital role in enhancing research security by enabling transparent, accurate, and interoperable tracking of research activities, affiliations, funding, and outputs. This presentation will explore how PIDs—such as ORCID iDs for researchers, ROR IDs for institutions, DOIs for publications and datasets, and grant identifiers—can help uncover risks related to undisclosed foreign affiliations, collaborations, and misattributed funding. PIDs support automated data validation, improving the integrity of researcher profiles, and facilitating cross-system compliance checks. PIDs are becoming essential tools for institutions and funding agencies to uphold the security and trustworthiness of the research ecosystem. In this session, we will explain the different persistent identifiers used in research, how they are used, and the level of adoption of PIDs worldwide. We will focus on the impact they have on research security workflows.