The wrong funder tagged as funding a journal article

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Who do I contact for rectification when the wrong funder is tagged as providing some of the funding support for a journal article, in metadata supplied to Crossref? Is it CrossRef or is it the specific publisher?

In this instance an article published in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal is mistakenly tagged in Crossref metadata as being funded by Arcadia Fund. It is not. The article in question is this one:

Crossref DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03658d

| ”Electrolyte clusters as hydrogen sponges: diffusion Monte Carlo simulations” (2022)

Journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
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Likewise,

Drake, C. L., Belcher, R., Howard, R., Roth, T., Levin, A. M., & Gumenyuk, V. (2015). Length polymorphism in the Period 3 gene is associated with sleepiness and maladaptive circadian phase in night-shift workers. Journal of Sleep Research, 24(3), 254–261. DOI: 10.1111/JSR.12264

in Crossref metadata is mistakenly tagged as funded by Arcadia Fund (10.13039/100012088). This one is published by Wiley.

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Hi @rmounce ,

Thanks for your message, and welcome to the Community Forum!

You’re welcome to report these errors to us. We’ll pass this along to the members’ responsible for the metadata records, since the error is with the metadata they have registered with us. Here’s the funder portion of that DOI 10.1039/d2cp03658d, as registered by RSC:

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Any idea who the correct funder is for these two DOIs?

Relatedly, all DOI metadata is provided to us by our publisher members. Crossref does not update, edit, or correct publisher-provided metadata directly.

I have reached out to our contacts at RSC and Wiley - publisher of the DOIs in question - and asked them to update the funders in the metadata. You may wish to contact the publishers directly as well, for the fastest possible response.

Warm regards,

Isaac

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Thanks Isaac.

I wouldn’t have a clue who to contact at each of these publishers, so if Crossref could handle this for Arcadia that would be great - one would presume that Crossref knows the best and most appropriate people to contact at publishers. Does Crossref have a directory of publisher metadata specialist contacts it could share with research funders, for this purpose?

The RSC article has many different funders:
”Acknowledgment is made to the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, grant number ACS-PRF#55264-UR6, for partial support of this research. This research was performed using resources provided by the Open Science Grid, 60,61 which is supported by the National Science Foundation, NSF award 1148698, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Arcadia University’s Faculty Development Funds are also gratefully acknowledged”

(there is an open access copy of this article available)

One suspects that an unchecked algorithm may have matched “Arcadia University’s Faculty Development Funds” to “Arcadia Fund”?

For the Wiley (2015) article there is also an open access copy.
The funding acknowledgement reads: “This study is supported by grant K01OH009996-03 from
CDC/NIOSH” .

An entity called “Arcadia” which may be some kind of pharmaceutical company (unrelated to Arcadia Fund) is mentioned in the conflict of interest section which presumably is the cause of the mis-tag of Arcadia Fund.

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Here is another article where Arcadia Fund is erroneously tagged in publisher-supplied Crossref metadata as a funder of the work:

Salem, M. E., Yin, J., Weinberg, B. A., Renfro, L. A., Pederson, L. D., Maughan, T. S., Adams, R. A., Van Cutsem, E., Falcone, A., Tebbutt, N. C., Seymour, M. T., D??az-Rubio, E., Aranda, E., Bokemeyer, C., Heinemann, V., Wasan, H., de Gramont, A., Grothey, A., Shi, Q., … Marshall, J. L. (2018). Clinicopathological differences and survival outcomes with first-line therapy in patients with left-sided colon cancer and rectal cancer: Pooled analysis of 2879 patients from AGITG (MAX), COIN, FOCUS2, OPUS, CRYSTAL??and COIN-B trials in the ARCAD database. European Journal of Cancer, 103, 205–213. DOI: 10.1016/J.EJCA.2018.08.020

Publisher: Elsevier BV

 "funder": [
      {
        "DOI": "10.13039/100012088",
        "name": "ARCAD",
        "doi-asserted-by": "publisher",
        "id": [
          {
            "id": "10.13039/100012088",
            "id-type": "DOI",
            "asserted-by": "publisher"
          }
        ]
      }

For the avoidance of doubt, I work at Arcadia Fund and I am authorized to assert that this above research was NOT supported by Arcadia Fund (10.13039/100012088) funding in any way.

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Thank you @rmounce . We’ve reached out to Elsevier about a metadata update for DOI 10.1016/J.EJCA.2018.08.020 as well.

-Isaac