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closeMissing data
Posted by msimkin on 20 Aug 2020 at 06:51 GMT
In Table S4 scientists with rank (ns) 2133 and 53715 are missing. That is 2134 follows after 2132 when ordered by rank (ns) and so on.
Scientists with rank 2665 and 65355 are missing. Apparently the same pair of scientists as before.
Names of the scientists with rank(ns) 9052, 64683, and 91010 are missing.
Would like to get an explanation how it came about in order to understand how much I can trust the rest of the data.
RE: Missing data
kboyack replied to msimkin on 24 Aug 2020 at 19:16 GMT
1) Scopus continuously updates author-ids based on best available current information. For the two missing ranked profiles, one was a profile for anonymous/missing authors that was removed once found, the second was the remnant for an author whose id changed between time periods and was also removed. 2) Regarding missing names, two were for group affiliations (US CDC and American College of Obstetricians) that do not correspond to individual authors and two contained only last names and thus were of doubtful validity. It is useful to remember that disambiguation of authors is limited by data received from publishers and also by how authors list themselves in article bylines.
RE: RE: Missing data
msimkin replied to kboyack on 12 Sep 2020 at 00:16 GMT
Thank you for reply. Your answer makes sense.