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Researchers sharing identical names in different fields cause academic citation confusion

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Is it true that researchers sharing identical names in different fields cause academic citation confusion?

Yes. 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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The analysis

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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LAGOS‐AND: A large gold standard dataset for scholarly author name disambiguation
2021
Highlights the persistent problem of author name ambiguity in scholarly databases caused by researchers sharing names.
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Zhang, L., Lu, W., & Yang, J. (2021). LAGOS‐AND: A large gold standard dataset for scholarly author name disambiguation. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24720

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PubMed knowledge graph 2.0: Connecting papers, patents, and clinical trials in biomedical science.
2025
Notes that author name disambiguation is a fundamental challenge in managing scholarly literature databases due to name collisions.
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J, X., C, Y., J, X., VI, T., J, K., M, S., M, S., Y, B., & Y, D. (2025). PubMed knowledge graph 2.0: Connecting papers, patents, and clinical trials in biomedical science.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05343-8

PubMed Computed Authors in 2024: an open resource of disambiguated author names in biomedical literature.
2024
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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S, T., Q, C., DC, C., WJ, W., & Z, L. (2024). PubMed Computed Authors in 2024: an open resource of disambiguated author names in biomedical literature.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae672

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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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