Author name ambiguity is an ongoing concern for graduate students, researchers and scholars alike. With the increase in publishing scholarly works, explosion of niche journals, international collaborations and new areas of research this issue will only become more complex. The is presentation will introduce you to ORCID and other author identity tools to help set apart your research from others'.
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Scholarly Identity: Distinguish Yourself and Your Research with ORCID
1. Scholarly Identity: Distinguish
Yourself and Your Research
Solving Author Name Ambiguity
Diane Clark, MLIS, MEd
Staff Development & Training Librarian | Agriculture, Food & Nutritional Science Librarian
University of Alberta Libraries
November 2014
2. Outline
● author name identification problems
● from many to one author identifier
o Web of Science Research ID (RID)
o Scopus Author ID
o PubMed sciENcv
o ORCiD ID
● what happens if nothing is done?
3. Author Name Disambiguation has been a
problem for several decades and will continue
to be problematic due to the increase in
publications and rate of publication. In
addition, there has been an increase in
globalization of research and science,
especially the surge of research programmes
over the last decade or so in countries such
as China and Korea.
Author Name Disambiguation (AND)
4. Author Name Ambiguity Issues
● data entry errors
● name changes
● transliteration
● disparate citation formats
● lack of standards enforcement
● imperfect citation gathering & retrieval software
● abbreviations of publication titles
● increase in the number of publications & niche
publications
● increase research programmes & new areas of
research
5. Example: Common Name / Increased
Research (PubMed)
Park, Kim & Lee Most
common Korean family names.
Account for almost 50% pop.
Lee J Most common Korean
last name and 1st initial. In
PubMed Lee J represents 500
unique individuals (Strotmann
and Zhao 2012)
Smith A Most common
Western last name and 1st
initial. In PubMed Smith A
represents 100 unique
individuals.
6. Example: Errors / Changed Name (Scopus)
St. Clair Errors in data entry, eg
St. Clair or Cassady St.
Name submitted by a co-author
may have errors.
Changing or hyphenating your
name after marriage is problematic.
Note: Corrections can be sent to
Scopus
9. Repositories
Funders
Higher Ed &
Employers
Professional
Assoc.
ORCID iD as HUB
Publishers
Artistic
Performance
Technical
Reports
Other
Author ID
QR Code
App
BibTeX
Importer
New Group
Interface
Create an ORCID iD
Import your citations
with BibTex.
Include any/all of
your scholarly works,
eg invited speaker,
patents, clinical
guidelines, technical
reports etc
Adapted from ORCID Status and Plans:
Tokyo Outreach Meeting 2014
<http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides>
ORCID is being
endorsed by
publishers,
repositories, funding
agencies, universities,
professional assoc.,
other author
identifying systems
10. The Next Step ...
1. Register for an ORCID ID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
2. Ensure your name is correct
o identify where your publications are indexed
(Scopus, Web of Science, arXiv, etc)
o register as users in appropriate databases and get author id’s:
Web of Science, Scopus, arXiv
WoS - ResearcherID
Scopus - Scopus AuthorID
PubMed - sciENcv
o send author name corrections if needed
1. Link your corrected ResearcherID, Scopus ID to ORCID important
11. What happens if you do nothing?
● your research won’t be discovered by other researchers, professionals,
institutions, publishers, and funding agencies
● it can impact tenure and advancement, research funding, find
collaborators
● it can increase the potential for intellectual property fraud; authors with
similar names can claim your work
● potential to harm the credibility of your research that impacts the
development of professional/industry guidelines, protocols, and
outcomes
12. Questions or comments?
Diane Clark diane.clark@ualberta.ca
Staff Development & Training Librarian | Agriculture, Food & Nutritional
Science Librarian
University of Alberta Libraries
Hinweis der Redaktion
According to Wikipedia - there about 250 family names in use and Lee, Kim and Park account for nearly half the population
In a recent article, “Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis” by Strotman and Zhao states that when looking at all authors the name “Lee, J” is ranked #7 and corresponds to roughly 500 distinct individuals” and Kim, S represents about 100 individuals and for English / Anglo-Saxon names Smith, A corresponds to about 100 - Smith was the most common las name in the 1990’s
PubMed
Lee J author search 1970 there were 55 articles jump to 2000 and there are 1,046 citations - Korea has been increasing their research output in the last 20 or so years and in 2013 there are 6529 and 2014 there are 4,703 articles - total citations for Lee, J 56,378
Smith, A in 1970 72 citations increased to 351 in 2000 and 710 citations in 2013 and 511 in 2014 - total citations for Smith A are 14601 (194? to present)
- example of stem cell research there were 300,00 distinct spellings of last names, however there are only about 200 last names in China and 24 last names count for half of the population or 10% of the world population
- most common Korean last name plus first initial is J. Lee a search in PubMed
In a recent article, “Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis” by Strotman and Zhao states that when looking at all authors the name “Lee, J” is ranked #7 and corresponds to roughly 500 distinct individuals” and Kim, S represents about 100 individuals and for English / Anglo-Saxon names Smith, A corresponds to about 100 - Smith was the most common las name in the 1990’s
