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Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)

The Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI) offers persistent identifier (PID) services to the DOE community and the US Government. A PID is a digital identifier that is globally unique, persistent, machine resolvable, has an associated metadata schema, identifies an entity, and is frequently used to disambiguate between entities.

Connecting Persistent Identifiers

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) provide ways to connect research components and make those connections easier to identify. PIDs can be associated with research outputs such as articles, data, and software, as well as people, organizations, and funding. PIDs promote FAIR practices by supporting linkages, providing increased discoverability, and enabling interoperability between research components.

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Connecting

Impact of Using Persistent Identifiers

Impact

As more organizations begin connecting research components using persistent identifiers (PIDs), individual researchers, research-conducting organizations, and funding organizations can better understand the impact of their work. One example to explore impact and the influence of a journal articles is by looking at article citations over time.

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