Exploiting citation networks for large-scale author name disambiguation

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Schulz, Christian ^a   Mazloumian, Amin ^a   Petersen, Alexander M ^b   Penner, Orion ^b   Helbing, Dirk ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Clustering; H index; Name disambiguation; Science of science

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); METADATA;

CITATION ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING; H INDICES; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; SCIENCE OF SCIENCE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84930645322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0011-3     Document Type: Article

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