Do we need a Unique Scientist ID for publications in biomedicine?

@article{citeulike:583554, 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).}, author = {Lang, Andreas B. and Lang, Elke }, citeulike-article-id = {583554}, doi = {10.1186/1742-5581-2-1}, journal = {Biomedical Digital Libraries}, keywords = {bibliometrics, citation-analysis, citation-databases}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2008-03-28 08:13:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Do we need a Unique Scientist ID for publications in biomedicine?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-2-1}, volume = {2}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:583554 L3 - citeulike-article-id:583554 TI - Do we need a Unique Scientist ID for publications in biomedicine? JF - Biomedical Digital Libraries VL - 2 IS - 1 N2 - 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). KW - bibliometrics KW - citation-analysis KW - citation-databases AU - Lang, Andreas AU - Lang, Elke PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-2-1 ER -