The Impact of Name Ambiguity on Properties of Coauthorship Networks

Initial based disambiguation of author names is a common data pre-processing step in bibliometrics. It is widely accepted that this procedure can introduce errors into network data and any subsequent analytical results. What is not sufficiently understood is the precise impact of this step on the da...

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Main Authors: Kim, Jinseok, Kim, Heejun, Diesner, Jana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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Online Access:http://society.kisti.re.kr/sv/SV_svpsbs03V.do?method=download&cn1=JAKO201418254338166