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Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors?

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Several Correspondences, including 'Give south Indian authors their true names' (Nature 452, 530; 2008) and 'Name variations can hit citation rankings' (Nature 453, 450; 2008), have illustrated difficulties in identifying authors and their papers, citations and h-index.

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Aerts, R. Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors?. Nature 453, 979 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453979b

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