diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/pidproviders/doi/XmlMetadataTemplate.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/pidproviders/doi/XmlMetadataTemplate.java
index 8199b7d9c9f..e8412728fbf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/pidproviders/doi/XmlMetadataTemplate.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/pidproviders/doi/XmlMetadataTemplate.java
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ private void writeEntityElements(XMLStreamWriter xmlw, String elementName, Strin
 
                 attributeMap.put("schemeURI", "https://ror.org");
                 attributeMap.put("affiliationIdentifierScheme", "ROR");
-                attributeMap.put("affiliationIdentifier", orgName);
+                attributeMap.put("affiliationIdentifier", affiliation);
             }
 
             XmlWriterUtil.writeFullElementWithAttributes(xmlw, "affiliation", attributeMap, StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml10(orgName));