Linkify author names & shorten the author list

[maxkfranz]

• It would be useful to link out each author name to a resource to find more information about the researcher, e.g. other papers. Start with Google Scholar.
• Shorten the author list. Include
  • the first author,
  • the last author,
  • N other authors max (perhaps 2-3).

Ref:

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[maxkfranz]

Re. Google Scholar: Most places that link to Google Scholar link to a search on an author name. This gives you an annoying list where you have to figure out which Joe Researcher is the one you want.

Two ideas:

• Link to a search on the author name re. the category you're in
  • You're interested in this category, so clicking on an author name that gives you results also in the category may be nice. It's context sensitive.
  • E.g. clicking on 'Perry, G' for Synthesize Heterogeneous Biological Knowledge via Representation Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Repurposing could link to a search for Perry's articles re. Alzheimer's on GScolar
• Link directly to the author profile (if it exists) based on a cross-referenced search with the article title -- may be difficult/costly

[jvwong]

This semantic scholar 'academic graph' may have some useful information.

1) What authors should we show?

Provide a DOI (e.g. Synthesize Heterogeneous ...), and you can get the following info about the authors of that preprint:

[
        {
            "authorId": "1962328922",
            ...
            "name": "K. Hsieh",
            "affiliations": [],
            "paperCount": 11,
            "citationCount": 45,
            "hIndex": 4
        },
        ...
        {
            "authorId": "145317224",
            "externalIds": {
                "DBLP": [
                    "George Perry"
                ],
                "ORCID": "0000-0002-6547-0172"
            },
            "name": "George Perry",
            "affiliations": [
                "University of Texas at San Antonio"
            ],
            "paperCount": 1233,
            "citationCount": 78123,
            "hIndex": 141
        },
        ...     
    ]

2) Disambiguating an author

The API also tried to link authors with their papers, but its a bit limited in just playing with my own name/id