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Several bibliographic repositories, such as DBLP,1 CiteSeer,2 PubMed,3 and BDBComp,4 provide features and services that facilitate literature research and discovery as well as other types of functionality. Such systems may list millions of bibliographic citation records (here understood as a set of bibliographic attributes such as author and coauthor names, work and publication venue titles of a particular publication) and have become an important source of information for academic communities since they allow the search and discovery of relevant publications in a centralized manner. Also, studies based on digital library content can lead to interesting results such as coverage of topics, research tendencies, quality and impact of publications of a specific sub-community or individuals, patterns of collaboration in social networks, etc. This kind of information, which is used, for instance, by funding agencies on decisions for grants and for individuals’ promotions, presuppose high quality content [Laender et al., 2008, Lee et al., 2007].
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Ferreira, A.A., Gonçalves, M.A., Laender, A.F. (2020). Introduction. In: Automatic Disambiguation of Author Names in Bibliographic Repositories. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02322-4_1
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