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Multiple academic authors share identical full names across published literature databases.
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Multiple academic authors sharing identical names across published literature databases is a well-documented challenge in bibliometrics, driving extensive research into author name disambiguation algorithms.

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A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments
2011 · cited by 174
Addresses author name disambiguation in bibliometrics, which is necessary precisely because multiple authors share identical names in research databases.
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Collecting large-scale publication data at the level of individual researchers: a practical proposal for author name disambiguation
2020 · cited by 58
Discusses the challenge of author name disambiguation in bibliometrics, confirming that distinguishing between different individuals with the same name is an important task.
A Web Service for Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Databases
2018 · cited by 21
Notes that author name disambiguation is required to cluster unique author names from publication records because name ambiguity is a known issue in scholarly databases.
The Impact of Name Ambiguity on Properties of Coauthorship Networks
2014 · cited by 19
Examines how initial-based name ambiguity affects coauthorship networks, confirming that name collisions occur in scholarly databases.
Author name disambiguation based on heterogeneous graph neural network
2025 · cited by 5
States that the situation of authors sharing the same name in literature databases is intensifying with the growing number of publications.
Revisiting gender bias research in bibliometrics: Standardizing methodological variability using Scholarly Data Analysis (SoDA) Cards
2025 · cited by 2
Notes that methodological inconsistencies in author name disambiguation persist across studies exploring scholarly metrics.
Author Name Disambiguation Based on Heterogeneous Graph
2023 · cited by 2
Explains that multiple people share the same name in the real world and in academic databases, leading to performance degradation and misattribution.
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  1. A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessmentspeer-reviewedsupports
  2. Collecting large-scale publication data at the level of individual researchers: a practical proposal for author name disambiguationpeer-reviewedsupports
  3. A Web Service for Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Databasespeer-reviewedsupports
  4. The Impact of Name Ambiguity on Properties of Coauthorship Networkspeer-reviewedsupports
  5. Author name disambiguation based on heterogeneous graph neural networkpeer-reviewedsupports
  6. Revisiting gender bias research in bibliometrics: Standardizing methodological variability using Scholarly Data Analysis (SoDA) Cardspeer-reviewedsupports
  7. Author Name Disambiguation Based on Heterogeneous Graphpeer-reviewedsupports
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