Add a new organization to ROR: Robot Nose Corporation

[adambuttrick]

Summary of request: Add a new organization to ROR

Name of organization: Robot Nose Corporation (United States)
Website: https://robotnose.net/
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Organization type: Company
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City: Lemont
Country: United States
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Year established: 2015
How will a ROR ID for this organization be used?
Other information about this request: Part of #3616

[ror-curator-bot]

ORCID affiliation usage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-712X
Previous requests: #3707
Summary: Robot Nose Corporation is a manufacturing firm dedicated to creating next generation substance analyzers for gases, liquids, and materials utilizing innovative technology such as mass spectrometry and pulsed lasers.

[adambuttrick]

Single instance of affiliation usage from the principal, with a publication from 2019. Not certain how active they continue to be in producing research. Site references funding from US government departments and laboratories, including Argonne National Laboratory. @nlundvick Can you take a look at this?

[nlundvick]

Tech company that is involved in the development of lab equipment for the analysis of various fluids and materials. The recent awards the company has received appear to be for the development of equipment for use in DOE labs. The organization does seem to be involved in some sorts of research activities. However, I am concerned with the lack of recent affiliation assertions. I found one publication from 2017: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01061. @adambuttrick - Is this the same publication you found? If it is the same publication, then I recommend Hold for Later under further affiliation use is demonstrated, or even perhaps decline the request considering the age of the publication. If it is different from the publication you found, then I suppose the two cases of affiliation is sufficient to consider the org to be in scope.

[mariagould]

It looks like the principal is involved in an upcoming conference presentation here: (https://spie.org/optics-photonics/presentation/Production-of-microchannel-plates-using-nano-scale-additive-manufacturing/12678-37?SSO=1)

So I would say it seems like the org is still active, but activity is still limited to one person. I'll flag this for discussion because this might be a good example case for reviewing the criteria around single-individual affiliation usage (as distinct from single-individual organizations).

[nlundvick]

I generally consider the number of individuals associated with an organization as firstly a test of legitimacy. If an organization demonstrates legitimacy through the number of individuals associated with it as well as the other criteria outlined in the curator evaluation workflow, I think it's reasonable to consider scope if an organization at present has a single PI asserting affiliation, particularly for "younger" orgs.

[adambuttrick]

I'm moving this to Hold for Later until continued evidence of research outputs, preferably by more than one person, can be demonstrated.