The literature on online communities shows that successful peer-curation communities, those able to attract and retain enough participants, can provide scalable knowledge-curation solutions comparable in quality to the quality of professionally curated content . Hence, the success of online research identity management systems may depend on the number of contributors and users they are able to recruit, motivate, and engage in research identity data curation. A significant body of research exists on what makes peer knowledge-creation and knowledge-curation groups and communities successful. Some of the issues and factors that may affect the success of peer curation of knowledge are peer motivations to contribute, the effectiveness of work articulation and coordination, task routing, and quality control (e.g., [10–12]). Researchers’ participation in the curation of research identity data has typically not been investigated, however. Furthermore, people may value different motivations at different levels . Therefore, it is important to identify the value structure underlying researchers’ motivations for maintaining and sharing their research identity data. This article addresses the need for a greater understanding of how to design scalable solutions for research information management by examining how researchers participate in RIMSs, their motivations for participation, and the value structures underlying those motivations. We investigated the following research questions: