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My only issue with this is that all this data is pulled from openalex.org/ which is an amazing service, but it does make mistakes in assigning publications to authors. In my case, I have assigned as my own some publications written by someone with a similar, Portuguese name , and as a result, the fields and institutions are not correct.

I have reported this inaccuracies to openalex and I hope they fix them soon, but considering that:

1. the methods they use are not 100% accurate (as opposed to ORCID), this is likely to happen to many others

2. academics are very sensitive to these issues and will be reaching to #bonfire admins to fix this, even though the problem is not bonfire-related

3. ORCID does the job better (mainly because academics manually add records there or they get pulled from other parties because academics gave their Orcids there)

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get affiliations from orcid's API instead.

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My only issue with this is that all this data is pulled from [openalex.org/](https://openalex.org/) which is an amazing service, but it does make mistakes in assigning publications to authors. In my case, I have assigned as my own some publications written by someone with a similar, Portuguese name , and as a result, the fields and institutions are not correct.

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I have reported this inaccuracies to openalex and I hope they fix them soon, but considering that:

1. the methods they use are not 100% accurate (as opposed to ORCID), this is likely to happen to many others
2. academics are very sensitive to these issues and will be reaching to [#bonfire](https://sandbox.openscience.network/hashtag/bonfire) admins to fix this, even though the problem is not bonfire-related
3. ORCID does the job better (mainly because academics manually add records there or they get pulled from other parties because academics gave their Orcids there)

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get affiliations from orcid's API instead.