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Carlos Cámara
@ccamara  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

My only issue with this is that all this data is pulled from openalex.org/ which is an amazing service, but it does make mistakes in assigning publications to authors. In my case, I have assigned as my own some publications written by someone with a similar, Portuguese name , and as a result, the fields and institutions are not correct.


I have reported this inaccuracies to openalex and I hope they fix them soon, but considering that:

  1. the methods they use are not 100% accurate (as opposed to ORCID), this is likely to happen to many others
  2. academics are very sensitive to these issues and will be reaching to #bonfire admins to fix this, even though the problem is not bonfire-related
  3. ORCID does the job better (mainly because academics manually add records there or they get pulled from other parties because academics gave their Orcids there)

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to get affiliations from orcid's API instead.

Carlos Cámara
@ccamara replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I suggested that in the #element / #matrix channel and n@ivan@bonfire.cafe immediately created an issue on their Github repo: github.com/bonfire-networks/...


Again, kudos to bonfire admins!

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