diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/ExportService.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/ExportService.java
index b98f88e386f..e7bcf17d44b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/ExportService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/ExportService.java
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ public void exportAllFormats(Dataset dataset) throws ExportException {
         } catch (ServiceConfigurationError serviceError) {
             throw new ExportException("Service configuration error during export. " + serviceError.getMessage());
         } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
             logger.log(Level.FINE, e.getMessage(), e);
             throw new ExportException(
                     "Unknown runtime exception exporting metadata. " + (e.getMessage() == null ? "" : e.getMessage()));
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 baf8302437d..9ebb346baf8 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
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
 import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.util.xml.XmlWriterUtil;
 import jakarta.enterprise.inject.spi.CDI;
 import jakarta.json.JsonObject;
+import jakarta.json.JsonString;
+import jakarta.json.JsonValue;
+import jakarta.json.JsonValue.ValueType;
 
 public class XmlMetadataTemplate {
 
@@ -621,8 +624,12 @@ private void writeEntityElements(XMLStreamWriter xmlw, String elementName, Strin
             if (externalIdentifier.isValidIdentifier(orgName)) {
                 isROR = true;
                 JsonObject jo = getExternalVocabularyValue(orgName);
-                if (jo != null) {
-                    orgName = jo.getString("termName");
+                // Some ext. cvv configs store a JsonArray of multiple objects/values. In such cases, we'll leave orgName blank 
+                if (jo != null && jo.containsKey("termName")) {
+                    JsonValue termName = jo.get("termName");
+                    if (termName.getValueType() == ValueType.STRING) {
+                        orgName = ((JsonString) termName).getString();
+                    }
                 }
             }