We should be just a number, and we should embrace it
Purpose - This viewpoint article supports the use of unique identifiers for the authors of scientific publications. This, we believe, aligns with the views of many others as it would solve the problem of author disambiguation. If every researcher had a unique identifier there would be significant op...
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| author | Kendall, G. Yee, Angelina Hardy, Steven |
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| description | Purpose - This viewpoint article supports the use of unique identifiers for the authors of scientific publications. This, we believe, aligns with the views of many others as it would solve the problem of author disambiguation. If every researcher had a unique identifier there would be significant opportunities to provide even more services. These extensions are proposed in this paper. Design/methodology/approach - We discuss the bibliographic services that are currently available. This leads to a discussion of how these services could be developed and extended. Findings - We suggest a number of ways that a unique identifier for scientific authors could support many other areas of importance to the scientific community. This will provide a much more robust system that provides a much richer, and more easily maintained, scientific environment. Originality/value - The scientific community lags behind most other communities with regard to the way it identfies individuals. Even if the current vision for a unique identifier for authors were to become more widespread, there would still be many areas where the community could improve its operations. This viewpoint paper suggests some of these, along with a financial model that could underpin the functionality |
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| spelling | nottingham-495292020-05-04T19:59:22Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49529/ We should be just a number, and we should embrace it Kendall, G. Yee, Angelina Hardy, Steven Purpose - This viewpoint article supports the use of unique identifiers for the authors of scientific publications. This, we believe, aligns with the views of many others as it would solve the problem of author disambiguation. If every researcher had a unique identifier there would be significant opportunities to provide even more services. These extensions are proposed in this paper. Design/methodology/approach - We discuss the bibliographic services that are currently available. This leads to a discussion of how these services could be developed and extended. Findings - We suggest a number of ways that a unique identifier for scientific authors could support many other areas of importance to the scientific community. This will provide a much more robust system that provides a much richer, and more easily maintained, scientific environment. Originality/value - The scientific community lags behind most other communities with regard to the way it identfies individuals. Even if the current vision for a unique identifier for authors were to become more widespread, there would still be many areas where the community could improve its operations. This viewpoint paper suggests some of these, along with a financial model that could underpin the functionality Emerald 2017 Article PeerReviewed Kendall, G., Yee, Angelina and Hardy, Steven (2017) We should be just a number, and we should embrace it. Electronic Library, 35 (2). pp. 348-357. ISSN 0264-0473 Publishing Author disambiguation Unique identifiers http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/EL-04-2016-0090 doi:10.1108/EL-04-2016-0090 doi:10.1108/EL-04-2016-0090 |
| spellingShingle | Publishing Author disambiguation Unique identifiers Kendall, G. Yee, Angelina Hardy, Steven We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title | We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title_full | We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title_fullStr | We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title_full_unstemmed | We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title_short | We should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| title_sort | we should be just a number, and we should embrace it |
| topic | Publishing Author disambiguation Unique identifiers |
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