adist_authors: Approximate Authors' Names Distances

In rubenfcasal/scimetr: Analysis of Scientific Publication Data with R

Approximate Authors' Names Distances

Description

Compute an approximate string distance between character vectors containing authors' names (of the form "family name, first name"). The distance is a weighted proportion of the differences between (capitalized) family names and between first name initial letters.

Usage

adist_authors(authors, table, weight = c(family = 0.9, name = 0.1))

Arguments

authors	author names to be approximately matched.
table	lookup table for matching.
weight	weights associated with differences in family names and in first names.

See Also

match_authors.

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