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Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors

Tuomela, Mikko S.; Fegley, Brent David; Torvik, Vetle I.

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Title
Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors
Author(s)
  • Tuomela, Mikko S.
  • Fegley, Brent David
  • Torvik, Vetle I.
Issue Date
2016-10-14
Keyword(s)
  • author name disambiguation
  • Author-ity
  • bibliometrics
  • spatial scientometrics
  • geographical mobility
Abstract
We introduce a web service, Author-ity Exporter, that permits searching and exporting data from Author-ity -- a database that has PubMed author names disambiguated with a high degree of accuracy [1]. Each author is represented by a cluster of papers annotated by publication count, time-span, affiliations, topics, journals, co-authors, citations as well as imputed data from MapAffil [2], Genni [3], and Ethnea [4] and links to their NIH/NSF grants and USPTO patents; and we have plans for more. This service should enable and simplify new types of author-centered bibliometric analyses with a unique strength in funding, geography, and diversity (gender, ethnicity, and professional age). We also present an illustrative case study of modeling of authors’ career movements to and from a specific city based on data retrieved from Author-ity Exporter. The service (and the R code used in the case study) are available at http://abel.ischool.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/exporter/search.pl.
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Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/91612
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
NIH P01AG039347
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2016. The authors.

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