A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-269

  D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea ^a   Giuffrida, Cristiano ^b   Abramo, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Universit di Roma Tor Vergata   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATA SETS; EXPANDABILITY; HEURISTIC APPROACH; LARGE-SCALE RESEARCH; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; PRECISION AND RECALL; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH STAFF; UNIVERSITY SYSTEM; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 78951494661     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21460     Document Type: Article

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