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@reox the ORCID is indeed the solution to this problem, as it would work as an ID or primary key for all authors. Unfortunately, it is very rare to find ORCID information in bib files. We would need to:

  • have the PDF files of all the papers whose authors' names we want to normalize;
  • assume the PDFs contain their ORCIDs, and;
  • find a way to scrape it from PDF files with different formatting.

Maybe if there was a service that gave us author information if we gave them the DOI of the paper, or its title, we would have an easier time. I know JabRef has a way to acquire paper information, sometimes including full author names, through a paper's DOI.

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mhoban commented Jun 27, 2022

@douglasrizzo thanks for this! I adapted your code to use with pyzotero so it wouldn't be necessary to go through a bibtex intermediary. https://gist.github.com/mhoban/3564f789a934028f9898b0a316588dd1

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