Torvik, VI; Weeber, M; Swanson, DR; Smalheiser, NR. "A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: A model for author name disambiguation " JASIST 56 (2). JAN 15 2005. p.140-158

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses:

V. Torvik     :  vtorvik at uic.edu
M. Weeber     :  marc at weeber.net
D.R.Swanson   :  dswanson at uchicago.edu
N.R.Smalheiser:  smalheiser at psych.uic.edu


TITLE:          A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: A
                model for author name disambiguation (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Torvik, VI; Weeber, M; Swanson, DR; Smalheiser, NR
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
                AND TECHNOLOGY  56 (2). JAN 15 2005. p.140-158


ABSTRACT:       We present a model for estimating the probability that a
pair of author names (sharing last name and first initial), appearing on two
different Medline articles, refer to the same individual. The model uses a
simple yet powerful similarity profile between a pair of articles, based on
title, journal name, coauthor names, medical subject headings (MeSH),
language, affiliation, and name attributes (prevalence in the literature,
middle initial, and suffix). The similarity profile distribution is computed
from reference sets consisting of pairs of articles containing almost
exclusively author matches versus nonmatches, generated in an unbiased
manner. Although the match set is generated automatically and might contain
a small proportion of nonmatches, the model is quite robust against
contamination with nonmatches. We have created a free, public service
("Author-ity":
http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu) that takes as input an author's name given
on a specific article, and gives as output a list of all articles with that
(last name, first initial) ranked by decreasing similarity, with match
probability indicated.

Addresses: Torvik VI (reprint author), Univ Illinois, Dept Psychiat,
MC912,1601 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
Univ Illinois, Dept Psychiat, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
Univ Chicago, Div Humanities, Chicago, IL 60637 USA


Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA
Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE
& LIBRARY SCIENCE

IDS Number: 890JU
ISSN: 1532-2882

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