ADR-0004: Use ORCID API script for career stage identification

• Date: 2026-01-14
• Status: Accepted
• Decision owner: Project lead
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Context

Author career stage needed to be classified to focus on assistant, associate, and full professors and exclude trainees or emeriti.

Decision

Write a Python script that queries the ORCID API to identify authors with ORCID IDs and extract their job titles for screening.

Rationale

Automating ORCID lookups reduces manual workload and provides consistent inputs for career stage filtering.

Consequences

Requires maintaining and verifying script output; some cases still need manual review.

Alternatives considered

Manual inspection of every author profile without automated ORCID lookups.