Health warning: might contain multiple personalities - the problem of homonyms in Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators
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Harzing, A. 2015. Health warning: might contain multiple personalities - the problem of homonyms in Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators. Scientometrics. 105 (3), pp. 2259-2270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1699-y
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Title | Health warning: might contain multiple personalities - the problem of homonyms in Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators |
Authors | Harzing, A. |
Abstract | Author name ambiguity is a crucial problem in any type of bibliometric analysis. It arises when several authors share the same name, but also when one author expresses their name in different ways. This article focuses on the former, also called the “namesake” problem. In particular, we assess the extent to which this compromises the Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (ESI) ranking of the top 1% most cited authors worldwide. We show that three demographic characteristics that should be unrelated to research productivity – name origin, uniqueness of one’s family name, and the number of initials used in publishing – in fact have a very strong influence on it. |
Keywords | Author disambiguation; homonyms; Essential Science Indicators; research productivity |
Research Group | International and Cross-cultural Management group |
Publisher | Springer |
Journal | Scientometrics |
ISSN | 0138-9130 |
1588-2861 | |
Publication dates | |
Dec 2015 | |
Online | 25 Aug 2015 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 18 Sep 2015 |
Accepted | 15 Aug 2015 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-ma... , but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1699-y |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1699-y |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84947126291 |
Language | English |
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