Automatic identification of academic profiles using author name disambiguation

The author name disambiguation is a fundamental activity in bibliometric studies, in particular in those that use different sources of information. The objective of this paper is to propose and test an author name disambiguation strategy in order to allow the automatic identification of the Google A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Digiampietri, Luciano Antonio, Ferreira, João Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Em Questão (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/74064
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/74064
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Desambiguação de nomes
Resolução de entidades
Bibliometria
Author name disambiguation
Entity resolution
Bibliometrics.
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Sumario:The author name disambiguation is a fundamental activity in bibliometric studies, in particular in those that use different sources of information. The objective of this paper is to propose and test an author name disambiguation strategy in order to allow the automatic identification of the Google Academic profile of researchers. The proposed strategy is based on the search for the profiles in Google Scholar, followed by a name matching process. Additionally, the academic publications that are registered in the researcher’s Lattes curriculum and Google Scholar profile are compared. Lastly, the name resolution is carried out by verifying among the compatible profiles the one with the highest evidence of belonging to the respective researcher. A case study involving researchers from the University of São Paulo was conducted, and the automated system was able to correctly identify 4,283 Google Scholar profiles. A coverage analysis showed that the system was able to find about 95% of the profiles of the researchers who have this information, and no false-positive was identified.