title: Motif-based success scores in coauthorship networks are highly sensitive to author name disambiguation.
abstract: Following the work of Krumov et al. [Eur. Phys. J. B 84, 535 (2011)] we revisit the question whether the usage of large citation datasets allows for the quantitative assessment of social (by means of coauthorship of publications) influence on the progression of science. Applying a more comprehensive and well-curated dataset containing the publications in the journals of the American Physical Society during the whole 20th century we find that the measure chosen in the original study, a score based on small induced subgraphs, has to be used with caution, since the obtained results are highly sensitive to the exact implementation of the author disambiguation task.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Hochschulring 18, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Klosik
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Hochschulring 18, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bornholdt
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marc-Thorsten
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Hütt
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001319:Authorship; D016208:Databases, Factual; D009275:Names; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010825:Physics; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States