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Researchers sharing identical names in different fields cause academic citation confusion
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Multiple studies and database initiatives confirm that researchers sharing identical names create significant confusion and ambiguity in academic literature searches and citation tracking.

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2021 · cited by 19
Highlights the persistent problem of author name ambiguity in scholarly databases caused by researchers sharing names.
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The retrieved literature consistently supports the claim that researchers sharing identical names cause confusion in academic databases, which has motivated extensive research into author name disambiguation algorithms and datasets.

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2025 · cited by 4
Notes that author name disambiguation is a fundamental challenge in managing scholarly literature databases due to name collisions.
2024 · cited by 2
Explicitly states that over 55% of author names in PubMed are ambiguous because different researchers share the same name, creating significant challenges for literature retrieval.
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