Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis?
Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis?
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10.1002/asi.22695
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2012-09
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Andreas Strotmann;Dangzhi Zhao
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作者：
Andreas Strotmann;Dangzhi Zhao
在这篇文章中，我们将探讨作者姓名消歧（AND）对基于作者的引文分析研究结果的影响，并确定在何种条件下，传统的简化方法使用姓氏和首字母可能在实践中就足够了。我们比较作者引文排名和引文映射结果在干细胞研究领域从2004年到2009年使用两种AND方法：传统的简化方法，使用作者姓氏和第一个初始和复杂的算法方法。我们发现，传统的方法会导致非常扭曲的排名和大幅扭曲的映射作者在这一领域的基础上第一或所有作者的引文计数，而最后一个作者为基础的引文排名和引文映射都出现相对免疫的作者姓名歧义问题。这在很大程度上是因为在这一领域非常活跃的中国和韩国作者的罗马化名字非常模糊，但这些研究人员中很少有人坚持以署名的最后作者身份发表文章。我们的结论是，特别是在当前全球化的趋势下，需要更加认真地解决引文分析和信息检索中的作者姓名歧义问题。在干细胞研究领域，实验室负责人传统上被列为署名的最后作者，基于最后作者的引文排名和引文映射使用传统的作者姓名消歧方法可能是一种简单的解决方法，但可能会在很大程度上过滤掉中国和韩国对该领域的贡献以及年轻研究人员的重要贡献。© 2012 Wiley Periodicals，Inc.
In this article, we explore how strongly author name disambiguation (AND) affects the results of an author-based citation analysis study, and identify conditions under which the traditional simplified approach of using surnames and first initials may suffice in practice. We compare author citation ranking and cocitation mapping results in the stem cell research field from 2004 to 2009 using two AND approaches: the traditional simplified approach of using author surname and first initial and a sophisticated algorithmic approach. We find that the traditional approach leads to extremely distorted rankings and substantially distorted mappings of authors in this field when based on first- or all-author citation counting, whereas last-author-based citation ranking and cocitation mapping both appear relatively immune to the author name ambiguity problem. This is largely because Romanized names of Chinese and Korean authors, who are very active in this field, are extremely ambiguous, but few of these researchers consistently publish as last authors in bylines. We conclude that a more earnest effort is required to deal with the author name ambiguity problem in both citation analysis and information retrieval, especially given the current trend toward globalization. In the stem cell research field, in which laboratory heads are traditionally listed as last authors in bylines, last-author-based citation ranking and cocitation mapping using the traditional approach to author name disambiguation may serve as a simple workaround, but likely at the price of largely filtering out Chinese and Korean contributions to the field as well as important contributions by young researchers. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.