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This guide provides an overview of unique author identifiers and provides examples of several frequently used identifiers.
Unique Author IDs: What are they?
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Articles on Unique IDs
Check out several articles, blog posts, and postings about Unique Author Identification below.
Aerts R. 2008. Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors? Nature. 453:979.
Cals, J.W.L., (2008). "Researcher identification: the right needle in the haystack". The Lancet, 371 (9631), p. 2152. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60931-9
PMID: 18586158
Cave R. 2006. Unique Author Identification (PLoS Blogs)
Enserink, M. 2009. "Scientific publishing. Are you ready to become a number?". Science, 323 (5922), p. 1662. DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5922.1662
PMID: 19325094
Fenner, M., 2011. Author Identifier Overview, LIBREAS. Library Ideas, #18.
The pre-print is available at http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/author-identifier-overview/
International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) - Draft ISO Standard
"The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO standard (ISO 27729) that identifies public identities of parties."
Lane, J. (2010). "Let's make science metrics more scientific". Nature, 464 (7288), p. 488. DOI: 10.1038/464488a
PMID: 20336116
Thorisson, G.A. (2009). "Accreditation and attribution in data sharing". Nature biotechnology, 27 (11), 984. DOI: 10.1038/nbt1109-984b
PMID: 19898446
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