Authoratory Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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What publications are included in the Authoratory?

The content of Authoratory is produced by analyzing large amounts of data from PubMed. Each release of Authoratory specifies exact author selection criteria that you can review on the statistics page.

Why some authors don't have a link beside their names?

The citations in Authoratory list all the original authors of the publication. If the author of a publication is not included in the Authoratory release for the specific year his name does not have a link. Only authors that meet specific selection criteria are included in the Authoratory. An author might still be included by in a different calendar year. Try searching the author by name in the author index.

Why does the same author appear under several slightly different names?

There is really no way to know each author's precise identity, including name. An author provides his name to the publisher and is free to spell it any way he desires. We resolve majority of name ambiguities so that "White Jason" and "White J" represent the same person. But in certain cases, if an author significantly changes the spelling of his name, we might treat a new name as a new identity.

I have published several articles! Why my name is not in the Authoratory?

Make sure that your article is indexed by PubMed. The indexing services work with some delay and it might take years for the article to be included. Each release of Authoratory has specific author selection criteria and the time period covered, which can be reviewed on the statistics page. Make sure that the article or the author you are looking for meet these criteria.

I think that an affiliation for a particular author is wrong. Can this be?

If one affiliation is specified for a group of authors does it mean that all the authors are affiliated with the institution? What if an article is a collaboration of several institutions, but only one affiliation is specified? There is no precise way to determine the exact affiliation of each author. Authoratory determines the most probable author affiliation by summarizing all of his affiliations for all of his articles.

What web browser should I use to access Authoratory?

We have tested Authoratory with Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, FireFox 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and Opera 9.0. Please enable JavaScript and allow cookies. Authoratory Social Network Browser requires Java 1.3+.

How often is this site updated?

This site is updated quarterly. The exact date of last update is listed on the statistics page.