myLaminin Perspectives

Research projects don’t fail, research systems do. As teams, funding, and institutions shift, project context is routinely lost. RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) fixes this structural flaw by making research projects persistent, traceable entities in the scholarly record. This article explores why RAiD is fast becoming essential research infrastructure and how it reshapes collaboration, attribution, and long-term research accountability.

Persistent Identifiers are now table stakes in research but most teams are using them poorly, inconsistently, or not at all. DOIs, ROR IDs, ORCIDs, and RAiDs promise transparency and credit, yet fragmented adoption creates gaps, broken links, and lost attribution. This article exposes where PID practices fail and why integrated, lifecycle-wide implementation is becoming impossible to ignore.