Think about "Ten Simple Rules for Disambiguating Author Name Strings"

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Start with some basic version, then apply it to some model corpus and refine until a useful set of 10 emerges.

Potential model corpus:

• model corpus https://tools.wmflabs.org/author-disambiguator/?fuzzy=0&name=Li+Li ns Some seeds for rules:
• take stock of the information available beyond author name string, e.g. affiliations, publication dates, journal names, co-authors (via IDs or name strings, including co-authors of co-authors), topic, citation patterns, language
• check whoever else might have solved your current concrete disambiguation problem

[Daniel-Mietchen]

• number of characters in strings
• specificity of topics