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Author Identifier Overview

Published 2 January 2011Open access
Martin Fenner
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TL;DR

An overview about some of the popular author identifier systems, and their characteristics are given, namely identity, reputation and trust.

Abstract

Today I posted the pre-print of a paper titled Author Identifier Overview that I submitted to the journal Libreas. This is the abstract: Unique identifiers for scholarly authors are still not commonly used, but provide a number of benefits to authors, institutions, publishers, funding organizations and scholarly societies. This report gives an overview about some of the popular author identifier systems, and their characteristics.

Keywords

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology