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Aliaga, Francisco M. & Correa, Ana D. (2011). Normalization trends of authors' names in scientific publications. RELIEVE, v. 17, n. 1, art. 0, p. 1-10 http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v17n1/RELIEVEv17n1_0.htm

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NORMALIZATION TRENDS OF AUTHORS' NAMES IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS [Tendencias en la normalización de nombres de autores en publicaciones científicas]

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Abstract Resumen We analyze current normalization trends of authors' na- Se analizan las tendencias actuales sobre normalización de mes. We review the advantages of using a single biblio- los nombres de autores. Se revisan las ventajas de utilizar graphic name as well as the most common naming rec- un nombre bibliográfico único y se revisan las recomen- ommendations so that each author can choose which to daciones más habituales para que se elijan los de cada au- follow.. tor.

Keywords Descriptores Academic journals; Internationality; Scientific communi- Revistas académicas; Internacionalidad; Publicación aca- cation; Impact; Citations; Author. démica; Comunicación científica; Impacto; Citas; Autor.

Over the last few years, we have been ex- • Various impulses and guidelines which periencing a substantial increase in the inter- favor the improvement and professionali- nationalization of academic production. This zation of the scientific edition, with prac- is particularly true in the Spanish sphere and tical help such as Román’s texts (1981) or specifically in education magazines (Aliaga those of Delgado López-Cózar, Ruiz Péres & Suárez-Rodríguez, 2007; Hernández Pina and Jiménez Contreras, (2007), the last of & Maquilón, 2010). There are many factors these within the ARCE project: (Support that can influence this, which include: for the Scientific Spanish Journals), from the Spanish Foundation for Science and • The regulations for evaluating scientific Technology (FECYT). research staff (ANECA, CNEAI, etc. in Spain or institutions such as CONACYT • The development of new evaluation tools

in Mexico, CAICYT in Argentina or Col- of quality and/or impact, such as Latindex ciencias in Colombia, to name a few in the or In-RECS. Latin-American sphere). • The birth and drive of virtual and direc- tory newspaper libraries, all geared to provide the reader with the simultaneous

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consultation of a large number of journals balization. Thus, a large quantity of dis- (we will cite projects as interesting as Re- agreements and errors which affect the qual- dalyc, e-revistas, DOAJ, etc.). ity and effectiveness of the codification proc- • The negotiations of FECYT with respect esses and the recovery of information are to the unified management of the relations produced. with ISI-Thompson-Reuters about its data One of the principle sources of these errors bases. is the special idiosyncrasy of the author’s In this context, it will produce a much names in certain countries. A well known greater access to journals, even journals with fact, the Anglo-Saxons (and many other Eu- predominately regional interests (such as ropean countries) predominately use the sur- Latinas), to international databases name of the father to name the child, along (Rodríguez Yunta, 2010). On one hand, it is with one, or in some cases, several individual producing an accelerated incorporation to the or given names. This system, although it Web of Knowledge databases (ISI- propitiates overlaps (and therefore identity Thompson-Reuters) that traditionally have confusion), is relatively simple to use. Being ignored the productions of Social Sciences that, the surname or family denomination is from the non-Anglo-Saxon cultural areas. easily identified in any text: one only has to The gradual commoditization of the Institute search for the last word (last name) of the of Scientific Information, created by Gar- name. However, this system presents some field, used to increase the complexity of the problems for the usage, slightly in retrogres- market (with the emergence of competitive sion, when the wife adopts her husband’s initiatives), has substantially modified the surname (generally losing her own), result- commercial policy (therefore affecting the ing in some problems for the identification of scientific) of said institution. On the other the authors (Goldin & Shim, 2004). hand, it has also produced the progressive implementation of some of the emerging Other cultures use specific but different alternatives (SCOPUS, Scholar Google), that forms of identification, which implies com- include a number of noticeably superior plications not considered (or resolved) with journals compared to their competitor Web of the system that we have previously made Knowledge. These and other international reference to and that we have termed, in or- databases, the majority of which have an der to simplify, Anglo-Saxon. Thus, in the Anglo-Saxon origin, are key elements to case with countries such as Korea, 22% of its propitiate the spread of knowledge, thus citizens have the surname Kim (as their only promoting the diffusion of its journals and surname). Therefore, it is not unusual to find authors. They are therefore essential to in- identity names between hundreds and even crease the measured impact of the scientific thousands of people (according to data from activity. 2004 from the National Statistical Office of the Republic of Korea). In the case of China, However, the relative inexperience of even prestigious magazines like Nature have many academics in this new international shown, alarmingly, the serious problems of context propitiates some problems that affect identification resulting from the current nam- the visibility of their work in these databases. ing system. Thus, 85% of the Chinese popu- Furthermore, the difficulties caused by the lation (about 1,100 million people) share the cultural differences must be taken into ac- 129 most common surnames, which gives a count between the creators of these databases small idea about the huge amount of overlaps (like we have said, fundamentally Anglo- that are produced (cfr. Nature, 2008). The Saxon) and the diverse national contexts to variations between name-surname and sur- those that protect the expression of their glo- name-name, as well as the syllabic separa-

Revista ELectrónica de Investigación y EValuación Educativa [ www.uv.es/RELIEVE ] pag. 2 Aliaga, Francisco M. & Correa, Ana D. (2011). Normalization trends of authors' names in scientific publications. RELIEVE, v. 17, n. 1, art. 0, p. 1-10 http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v17n1/RELIEVEv17n1_0.htm tions (or not) of the names, are added to affects the authors´ visibility and identifiabil- these problems, among others, according to ity, which is very important in regards to the different customs. Other related problems dispersion and recognition of their work. The occur in zones such as the south of India (in necessity to properly establish the author´s which they don’t use a surname, substituting name (in the past called the ´pen name´) is a it instead for the first name of the father) or relevant decision for the authors. This topic the Slavic countries (where the children use a is so important that the Spanish Foundation patronymic name, taken from the father’s of Science and Technology (FECYT) pub- first name, and to which is added an ending). lished a manual (FECYT, 2007), ask EC3 group (which was responsible, for example, In the case of the Hispanic or Iberian de- for In-RECS), a manual about "Recommen- nomination (which also includes the Portu- dations for help in the standardization of guese cultures), the majority of cases are authors´ names and institutions in scientific inherited as much from the surname of the publications” . These recommendations are father as from that of the mother, in addition applicable to all authors that use Hispanic or to having one, or more frequently several, Iberian names, especially in Latin American personal or given names. This system causes countries. In RELIEVE, we choose to sup- frequent confusion when it is included with port the FECYT manual recommendations, the authors in databases created with an An- which favor a suitable cataloging index and glo-Saxon mentality. The last name in the create a greater impact for our publication sequence is taken as the identifying surname and its authors. However, in the end, we will (when looking for the surname and identify- always respect the authors´ wishes. ing it as the surname of the subject), which in our case is not the used surname, but ra- To begin, we have to make an initial ob- ther the secondary one. Therefore, it is nor- servation that this topic would not be neces- mal for the same text to appear to have dif- sary to stress if the problem did not show up ferent authors depending on whether we look so frequently. We´re trying to make a system for them in ‘Hispanic’ databases or the ‘An- in which it is not necessary to search the full glo-Saxon’ databases, being that in the for- and exact name as it appears in the civil reg- mer the first surname is used to identify the isters. The researchers can choose between authors and in the latter the second is used. searching one or both last names (as is done in everyday life, according to how the author So that we can calibrate the importance of uses their name). The researcher can also this topic, we will keep various studies (Co- search the first name or several names. The stas y Bordons, 2007; Ruiz-Pérez, López- purpose of this is to properly identify au- Cózar y Jiménez-Contreras, 2002) in mind thors, not directly follow the birth certificate. that formed the basis of most international Moreover, we need a strong presence of the data, the ISI-Thompsom-Reuters (SCI, SSCI name used in the searches so that it will be and AHCI). The percentage of Spanish au- processed through distinct databases (His- thors that appear under two or more distinct panic, Anglo-Saxon and others) because dif- names varies from 20% to 40%, making it ferent search engines could potentially elicit difficult to find their works and calculate very different results. their works´ impact (for example, how to calculate indexes such as H index). Look at some basic recommendations about name use that Hispanic authors ought With this in mind, an author ought to care- to follow according to FECYT (2007): fully think about as well as maintain how they sign their name on articles. This name 1. Always sign all scientific and/or aca- decision, or lack thereof, consequentially demic work with the same name. Fre- quently, a researcher will sometimes use

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one last name, other times two last names, will. Investing a little time to choose a in others a different name and, on occa- good ´pen name´ at the start of a career sion, use initials to shorten their name. will pay off in the long run. However, we These different signatures only lead to are all guilty of using different names, confusion and make it difficult to find the showing that this text is a base of informa- particular author´s work. It ought to be in- tion that can usually detect Hispanic stilled in the minds of authors that if they names (ISOC – Human and Social Sci- properly name themselves they will reap ences, created by the High Advisor of Sci- as many personal benefits from properly entific Spanish Investigations) and another named work as the academic community of Anglo-Saxon origin (Google Scholar).

Table 1 – Authors´ name versions in different databases Data base Versions of name Versions of name Aliaga, Francisco Correa, Ana Delia Aliaga, F. Correa, Ana-Delia ISOC Aliaga, Francisco M Correa, Ana D. Aliaga Abad, Francisco M. Correa Piñero, Ana Delia Aliaga Abad, Francisco FA Abad AD Correa FMA Abad AD Correa Piñero F Aliaga ADC Piñero FM Aliaga ANADC PIÑERO Scholar Google F Aliaga Abad Correa Piñero, Ana Delia FM Aliaga Abad AD Correa-Piñero C Piñero ADC Piñeiro

2. In general, the most recommended with one of the last names. For the middle name format is “First Name + Middle Ini- name, we can opt to: tial (Optional) + First Last Name.” This a. use only the initial, option is for authors that do not have a b. Omit the less used name or common last name (that are not García, González, Sánchez). The proposed format c. Put them together, but with a dash to would not satisfy the identification re- show that there is a connection between quirement for the author with a common the two names, creating something like first last name, because his/her name one name. This option would be prefer- could already be confused with many oth- able when the names are very common er authors who they share a common last and prone to a lot of confusion. This is name with. In regards to first names, one also the case for an author who does not has to avoid confusing the middle name want to give up any of the names he/she has, although it will make the citation more complicated..

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Table 2 – Applied Recommendations – Distinguished Last Name Recommendation Full Name Suggested Name Tomás Escudero Escorza Tomás Escudero 2 Eduardo Backhoff Escudero Eduardo Backhoff Francisco Miguel Aliaga Abad Francisco M. Aliaga 2a Ana Delia Correa Piñero Ana D. Correa Francisco Javier Tejedor Tejedor Javier Tejedor 2b María Natividad Orellana Alonso Natividad Orellana Ana Delia Correa Piñero Ana-Delia Correa 2c José Antonio Téllez Muñoz José-Antonio Téllez

3. For authors with common last names, could also be used for authors without a they should use both last names, in order common first last name, but who want to to reduce the probability of confusion with maintain a more complete identification or other people with similar names. How- reduce their probability of being confused ever, they should avoid thinking that the with another person. These names should last name has the last word. In these cases, follow the same recommendations found we recommend that the authors connect in the previous section. their last names with a dash. This option

Table 3 – Applying the recommendations – Common Last Name Recommendation Full Name Suggested Name Gregorio Rodríguez Gómez Gregorio Rodríguez-Gómez 3 Manuel López Torrijo Manuel López-Torrijo 3a Jesús Modesto Suárez-Rodríguez, Jesús M. Suárez-Rodríguez Víctor Benito Álvarez Rojo Víctor Álvarez-Rojo 3b Jesús Modesto Suárez-Rodríguez, Jesús Suárez-Rodríguez Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruiz, Miguel-Ángel Gómez-Ruiz 3c Rosario Leticia Dominguez Guedea Rosario–Leticia Dominguez-Guedea

4. The grammatical terms (articles, pre- b. In these last names: Grammatical positions) in authors´ names have gener- terms (articles, prepositions, etc.) create ally stopped being a problem, since some confusion about whether the articles databases already respect the grammatical should be understood as part of the last terms´ positions, while others do not take name or something completely separate. the grammatical terms into consideration Therefore, it is best to avoid articles en- at all during the search. tirely. Yet, many people wish to keep a. In the first names: We recommend to their name in its entirely, including the eliminate the grammatical terms for rea- grammatical terms, in order to stand out sons that you already know too well and more. In this case and in order to create also to avoid adding singularity to a par- one cohesive unit of reference, the au- ticular grammatical word. thor ought to link all the words of their last name with dashes.

Table 4 – Applying the recommendations – Grammatical terms Recommendation Full Name Suggested Name María del Carmen Jiménez Fernández Carmen Jiménez [o Jiménez-Fernández] 4a María del Pilar Sepúlveda-Ruiz María-Pilar Sepúlveda [o Sepúlveda-Ruiz] Rakel del Frago Arbizu Rakel Frago o Rakel del-Frago 4b Arturo de la Orden Hoz Arturo de-la-Orden

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5. Abbreviations: There are some abbrevia- avoided and the whole word should be either tions that, since they´re very common in the written out or eliminated entirely. The ab- Hispanic context, are a manner of habit, they breviation´s source and the extent of the ab- do not generally create problems and are un- breviation´s use needs to be taken into con- derstood well. However, the fact that His- sideration as well when used in an author´s panics can usually understand these abbre- name. It is better to avoid using the abbreviations no longer applies in international viations, or at least to always sign the name databases. Thus, abbreviations should be the same way every time.

Table 5 – Applying the recommendations – Name Abbreviations Recommendation Full Name Suggested Name Mª del Carmen Jiménez María-del-Carmen Jiménez [o Carmen Jiménez] 5 Mª Ángeles Rebollo Catalán Mari-Ángeles Rebollo [o Ángeles Rebollo]

6. Accents are the last problem that need Spanish initiative (supported by the FECYT) to be addressed before choosing a defini- called IraLIS (International Registry of Au- tive and consistent form of signing Span- thors-Links to Identify Scientists). Their ish names. Accents are a symbol that is five-fold purpose is declared on their web not used in English, and some databases site: are unable to interpret them, making it 1) To make scientific authors aware of the harder to search for an author and his/her importance of his/her signature so he/she texts. Other databases simply eliminate the can be cited correctly, and can easily re- accents entirely and just leave the letters cover his/her bibliography throughout without accent marks. Lastly, there are their live careers. some (generally, but not only, Hispanic) 2) To write signature's standard criteria to databases that can respect the accent a) be indexed properly in databases and marks on names. To write a word in Span- ish without an accent mark would gener- b) be distinguished from other authors ally be considered a spelling error, there- with the same or similar name. fore some authors choose to keep the ac- 3) To produce a database with all the signa- cents in their name, while others put their ture variants used by each author. work first and remove them . 4) To carry out automatic literature searches using all signature variants. However, as we have said all along, the golden rule for authors is to always maintain 5) To be the authority list of the E-LIS re- the same format for their signature and that pository authors names. this ‘pen name’ let´s us clearly identify the The system created by IraLISallows an au- authors without confusion. thor to write his/her full name as they wish and then creates a list of various names, ac- Since RELIEVE, as we previously men- cording to standard Hispanic terms, for the tioned, respects the wishes of each author, same author. Thus, each author can choose sometimes the same name is written different his customary signature and register it in ways, even though it is part of the same pub- IraLIS. The system will then add the other lication (for example, Salmerón-Pérez, Gu- name variations that could be possibly used tierrez-Braojos, Fernández-Cano & Sal- during a search. This makes it much easier to meron-Vilchez (2010). find an author´s publications. The IraLIS has created a commendable and unselfish service Many initiatives have emerged supporting for Spanish authors. the standardization of authors´ names in scientific literature. One of these initiatives is a

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Figura 1 - IraLIS Records Example

The problems with the correct identifica- confusion. They tried a controversial and tion of the authors worry more than just minimally structured system (there were no those involved. Large companies that admin- attempts to coordinate with other similar ister the principal bibliographic databases projects). However, given the strength of the also want to reduce the number of errors and company that promoted it, it had a good develop tools that allow for more specific chance of succeeding. We also must not for- searches. For example, the database formerly get other, potentially interesting, initiatives known as ISI (included in Thompson- created by other institutions, such as the 'au- Reuter’s Web of Knowledge) tried to con- thor profile' and 'Author Identifier', both of tribute to the author identification process by which were created by Scopus, the database developing and putting into service Resear- developed by the powerful Elsevier. Cross- chID in 2008. They worked on an initiative Ref, a coalition of more of two thousand that set out to give a numeral identification scholarly publishers, wants to introduce a to each researcher. A system like this would Contributor ID, similar to its digital object avoid confusion (disambiguate) and carry identifiers (DOIs) for electronic content . out bibliographic searches without identity

Figure 2 – Identification and number assignment record in Researcher ID

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RELIEVE wants to contribute to the cor- Correa, Ana D. & Aliaga, Francisco M. rect identification of our authors. Thus, for a (2009). Improvement of the quality, man- few years, we have suggested that references agement, and circulation of RELIEVE. from our articles include the full name of our RELIEVE, v. 15, n. 2. authors, instead of just the initials. We are http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v15n2/RELIE aware this does not align with the general VEv15n2_0eng.htm APA format; however, as the sixth edition of Costas, R. & Bordons, M. (2007). Algorit- the APA manual (2010) indicates, APA mos para solventar la falta de normaliza- regulations are not directions, but rather a ción de nombres de autor en los estudios description of the typical citations used in bibliométricos. Investigación bibliotecoló- scientific magazines. We believe that the gica: archivonomía, bibliotecología e in- usage of the authors’ full names avoids con- formación, 21(42), 13–32. fusion between people with the same last Delgado López-Cózar, Emilio; Ruiz-Perez, name. Also, the extra effort to include the Rafael; Jiménez-Contreras, Evaristo full name is minimal enough that it is worth (2007). La Edición de Revistas Científicas: it to make this small modification to the sug- Directrices, Criterios y Modelos de Eva- gest APA format. luación. Madrid: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT). We also must not forget other, potentially FECYT (2007). Propuesta para la normali- interesting, initiatives created by other insti- zación del nombre de autores e institucio- tutions, such as the 'author profile' and 'Au- nes en las publicaciones científicas. Con- thor Identifier',both of which were created by sultado el 10 de Enero de 2011 en Scopus, the database developed by the pow- http://www.accesowok.fecyt.es/normalizac erful Elsevier CrossRef, an association of ion_nombre_autor.pdf more than 2,000 scientific publishers, has Goldin, Claudia & Shim, Maria (2004). also proposed Contributor ID, which would Making a Name: Surnames of College give a specific number to each author that Women at Marriage and Beyond. Journal would function as a DOI (digital object iden- of Economic Perspectives, 18 (2), pp. 143- tifier) for computerized documents (Qiu, 60. 2008), by means of ORCID (Open Re- Hernández Pina, Fuensanta & Maquilón searcher and Contributor ID). Sánchez, Javier J. (2010). Indicadores de calidad de las revistas científicas y sistema As we have shown in the previous para- de gestión editorial mediante OJS. Revista graphs, we are in a historical moment in de investigación Educativa, vol 28 (1), 13- which we are rethinking the main identifica- 29. tion form of scientific authors. There are MLA (2008). MLA Style Manual and Guide various possible solutions that have been to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: explored. We strongly suggest the majority MLA of these solutions to researchers who send Qiu J. (2008). Scientific publishing: identity their texts to RELIEVE. crisis. Nature, 451:766–767. doi:10.1038/451766a References Rodríguez-Yunta, L. (2010). Las revistas Aliaga, Francisco M. and Suarez-Rodriguez, iberoamericanas en Web of Science y Sco- Jesus M. (2007). Internationality of aca- pus: visibilidad internacional e indicadores demic journals: A case study with RE- de calidad. En VII Seminario Hispano- LIEVE. RELIEVE, v. 13 , n. 13, N. 1. Mexicano de Investigación en Biblioteco- http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v13n1/RELIE logía y Documentación, Ciudad de Méxi- VEv13n1_0eng.htm co,7-9 de abril.

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Aliaga, Francisco M. ([email protected]). Professor in the Department of Research Meth- ods and Diagnostic in Education at the Universidad de Valencia (Spain), the address of which is Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 30. 46010-Valencia (Spain). His main areas of work are “Internet and Edu- cation”, “Research methodology” and “Research evaluation”. He was named Executive Editor of RELIEVE in September 2001 and was promoted to Director in June of 2009. Buscar otros artícu-

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Reference / Aliaga, Francisco M. & Correa, Ana D. (2011). Normalization trends of authors' names in scientific publi- Referencia cations. RELIEVE, v. 17, n. 1. http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v17n1/RELIEVEv17n1_0eng.htm Normalization trends of authors' names in scientific publications. [Tendencias en la normalización de Title / Título nombres de autores en publicaciones científicas]. Authors / Aliaga, Francisco M. y Correa, Ana D. Autores Translators/ Lisa Littman & David Sale Traductores Review / Revis- RELIEVE (Revista ELectrónica de Investigación y EValuación Educativa), v. 17, n. 1 ta ISSN 1134-4032 Publication date / 2011 (Reception Date: 2011 March 9 [Editorial]; Publication Date: 2011 March 9). Fecha de publicación We analyze current normalization trends of authors' names. We review the advantages of using a single bibliographic name as well as the most common naming recommendations so that each author can choose Abstract / which to follow. Resumen Analizamos las tendencias actuales sobre normalización de los nombres de autores. Se revisan las ventajas de utilizar un nombre bibliográfico único y se revisan las recomendaciones más habituales para que se elijan los de cada autor. Keywords / Academic publishing; Internationality; Scientific communication; Impact; Citations; Author. Descriptores Publicación académica; Internacionalidad; Comunicación científica; Impacto; Citas; Autor Institution / Universidad de Valencia y Universidad de La Laguna (España). Institución Publication site http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE / Dirección Language / Español & English (Title, abstract and keywords in English & Spanish) Idioma

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