diff --git a/app/controllers/datacite_dois_controller.rb b/app/controllers/datacite_dois_controller.rb
index 9f5ae49c6..ffd37da12 100644
--- a/app/controllers/datacite_dois_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/datacite_dois_controller.rb
@@ -666,10 +666,12 @@ def safe_params
       xml = xml.strip
     end
 
+    fail(ActionController::UnpermittedParameters, ["creators must be an Array"]) if p[:creators]&.respond_to?(:keys)
     p[:creators]&.each do |c|
       fail(ActionController::UnpermittedParameters, ["nameIdentifiers must be an Array"]) if c[:nameIdentifiers]&.respond_to?(:keys)
     end
 
+    fail(ActionController::UnpermittedParameters, ["contributors must be an Array"]) if p[:contributors]&.respond_to?(:keys)
     p[:contributors]&.each do |c|
       fail(ActionController::UnpermittedParameters, ["nameIdentifiers must be an Array"]) if c[:nameIdentifiers]&.respond_to?(:keys)
     end
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/files/nasa_error.json b/spec/fixtures/files/nasa_error.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..82023f91c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/files/nasa_error.json
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+{
+  "data": {
+	"type":"dois",
+	"id":"10.14454/rdnt.1x18sn",
+  	"attributes":{
+  		"doi": "10.14454/rdnt.1x18sn",
+  		"prefix":"10.14454",
+  		"creators":[
+  			{
+          "name":"Maskey, Manil",
+          "nameType":"Personal",
+          "givenName":"Manil",
+          "familyName":"Maskey"
+        },
+        {
+          "name":"Ramachandran, Rahul",
+          "nameType":"Personal",
+          "givenName":"Rahul",
+          "familyName":"Ramachandran"
+        },
+        {
+          "name":"Gurung, Iksha",
+          "nameType":"Personal",
+          "givenName":"Iksha",
+          "familyName":"Gurung"
+        },
+        {
+          "name":"Ramasubramanian, Muthukumaran",
+          "nameType":"Personal",
+          "givenName":"Muthukumaran",
+          "familyName":"Ramasubramanian"
+        }
+  		],
+  		"titles":{
+  			"title":"Tropical Cyclone Satellite Imagery and Wind Speed Dataset"
+  		},
+  		"publisher": "Radiant MLHub",
+  		"publicationYear": 2020,
+  		"types":{
+  			"resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"
+  		},
+  		"version":1.0,
+  		"contributors":{
+  			"nameType":"Organizational",
+  			"name":"NASA Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT)",
+  			"contributorType":"DataCurator"
+  		},
+  		"dates":{
+  			"dateType":"Valid",
+  			"date": "2000/2019"
+      },
+      "fundingReferences":{
+          "funderName":"NASA Earth Science Data Systems Program"
+      },
+  		"rightsList":{
+        "rights":"CC BY 4.0",
+        "rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
+  		},
+  		"url":"http://registry.mlhub.earth/10.34911/rdnt.1x18sn",
+  		"landingPage":{
+  			"url":"http://registry.mlhub.earth/10.34911/rdnt.1x18sn"
+  		},
+      "event":"publish"
+    }
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/DataciteDoisController/downloads/has_downloads_meta.yml b/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/DataciteDoisController/downloads/has_downloads_meta.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61e755128
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/DataciteDoisController/downloads/has_downloads_meta.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+http_interactions:
+- request:
+    method: get
+    uri: https://doi.org/ra/10.14454
+    body:
+      encoding: US-ASCII
+      string: ''
+    headers:
+      User-Agent:
+      - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Maremma/4.7.2; mailto:info@datacite.org)
+      Accept:
+      - text/html,application/json,application/xml;q=0.9, text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
+  response:
+    status:
+      code: 200
+      message: ''
+    headers:
+      Date:
+      - Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:11:53 GMT
+      Content-Type:
+      - application/json;charset=UTF-8
+      Connection:
+      - keep-alive
+      Set-Cookie:
+      - __cfduid=d58afafd88534ac7ebc3f22717efd88aa1601287913; expires=Wed, 28-Oct-20
+        10:11:53 GMT; path=/; domain=.doi.org; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax; Secure
+      Cf-Cache-Status:
+      - DYNAMIC
+      Cf-Request-Id:
+      - 0575cb979600001f154824e200000001
+      Expect-Ct:
+      - max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
+      Strict-Transport-Security:
+      - max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
+      Server:
+      - cloudflare
+      Cf-Ray:
+      - 5d9caed288151f15-FRA
+    body:
+      encoding: ASCII-8BIT
+      string: |-
+        [
+          {
+            "DOI": "10.14454",
+            "RA": "DataCite"
+          }
+        ]
+    http_version: null
+  recorded_at: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:11:53 GMT
+recorded_with: VCR 5.1.0
diff --git a/spec/requests/datacite_dois_spec.rb b/spec/requests/datacite_dois_spec.rb
index a3b4c5fdb..1e07e177a 100644
--- a/spec/requests/datacite_dois_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/datacite_dois_spec.rb
@@ -2184,6 +2184,16 @@
       end
     end
 
+    context 'when the request has wrong object in nameIDentifiers' do
+      let(:valid_attributes) { JSON.parse(file_fixture('nasa_error.json').read) }
+
+
+      it 'fails to create a Doi' do
+        post '/dois', valid_attributes, headers
+
+        expect(last_response.status).to eq(422)
+      end
+    end
 
 
     # context 'when the request is a large xml file' do