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- Title
Do we need a Unique Scientist ID for publications in biomedicine?
- Authors
Bohne-Lang, Andreas; Lang, Elke
- Abstract
Background: The PubMed database contains nearly 15 million references from more than 4,800 biomedical journals. In general, authors of scientific articles are addressed by their last name and forename initial. Discussion: In general, names can be too common and not unique enough to be search criteria. Today, Ph.D. students, other researchers and women publish scientific work. A person may not only have one name but several names and publish under each name. A Unique Scientist ID could help to address people in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. As a starting point, perhaps PubMed could generate and manage such a scientist ID. Summary: A Unique Scientist ID would improve knowledge management in science. Unfortunately in some of the publications, and then within the online databases, only one letter abbreviates the author's forename. A common name with only one initial could retrieve pertinent citations, but include many false drops (retrieval matching searched criteria but indisputably irrelevant).
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology; DATA mining; MANAGEMENT science; MANAGEMENT information systems; ELECTRONIC information resource searching; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Biomedical Digital Libraries, 2005, Vol 2, p1
- ISSN
1742-5581
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1742-5581-2-1