The author challenge: Identification of self in the scholarly literature

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 503-520

  Rotenberg, Ellen ^a   Kushmerick, Ann ^a  

^a IP and Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Author disambiguation; Author identification; Author identifiers; Orcid; Researcherid

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052690485     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2011.606405     Document Type: Article

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