The original ranking of the top-25 author lists based on the number of papers published in journals of the corpus (corpus-related productivity) was compared to the ranking induced by the HI(ISI) for all distinct authors named in the top-25 lists (n = 72).
Additionally, WoS has an automated system Distinct Author Identification System (DAIS) (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/h_da_sets.html) and an author-maintained system and GS also allows authors to create and maintain a profile.
Figure 2 presents the evolution of the number of distinct authors (Fig. 2 a), institutions (Fig. 2 b), and published papers (Fig. 2 c) per year.
We have found that it was correct for 89 articles and for the remaining 11 articles the errors were the following: For 2 single-authored articles the authors' names were split in two (resulting as two distinct authors), for 1 article there was an extra author in the author list, for 2 articles there were two missing authors and for 6 articles there was one missing author.
Rather than alter egos alternative identities that serve as counterparts to or foils for an author's own ideas Pessoa's heteronyms were presented as distinct authors, each of whom differed from the others in terms of poetic style, aesthetic, philosophy, personality, and even gender and language (Pessoa wrote in Portuguese, English, and French).
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For example, we consider Smith, AM and Smith, BM as not being in conflict, but treat {Smith, AM} and {Smith, A} as indeterminately distinct authors and so we exclude all profiles with {Smith, A α 2 α 3 } from our analysis.
Thanks to MSAS, we also obtained the authors' names and authors' unique identification number of these articles, (95text000) distinct authors.
Fig. 2 Evolution of the number of distinct authors, institutions and published papers in all 30 editions of SBRC.
Figure 2 presents the aggregated number of distinct authors who published papers in SBRC, Fig. 2a, the aggregated number of distinct authors' affiliations, Fig. 2b, and also the aggregated number of published papers, Fig. 2c, over the years.3 As can be observed, the number of new authors more than doubled between the years 2000 and 2012.
In particular, we analyze the most engaged SBBD authors, the number of distinct authors, institutions, and published papers, and the evolution of some of the most frequent terms presented in the titles of the papers.
