Re: Institutional affiliation of authors

[Inna Ilinskaya <ilinskay@fiu.edu>]

This is quite confusing.  I have never noticed that records are 
so weird, probably because I did not need to identify the 
institutional affiliation of the author.

Did you try to contact Thomson Scientific customer support?  If 
they do not know how to sort things out, I wonder who would know.

You can find their contact information at: 
http://scientific.thomson.com/custserv/

Inna Ilinskaya
ilinskay@fiu.edu
Electronic Information Services Librarian
Interim Engineering Librarian
Green Library -- GL 232B
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:06:16 EDT
>From: bosire onyancha <b_onyancha@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Institutional affiliation of authors
>To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I am currently conducting a study on eastern and southern African
>research productivity in HIV/AIDS using Thomson scientific's
>science indicators and some of the entities that I am evaluating
>are authors, institutions and countries as producers of HIV/AIDS
>research in and about E&S Africa. I came across a problem in
>identifying authors based in African institutions. I do not know
>if it is only I who has a problem with such identification. Take
>for instance the following:
>
>AU
>Kivihya-Ndugga, LEA
>Van Cleeff, MRA
>Githui, WA
>Nganga, LW
>Kibuga, DK
>Odhiambo, JA
>Klatser, PR
>
>C1  KIT, Dept Biomed Res, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands.
>CRDR, Kenya Med Res Inst, Nairobi, Kenya.
>KIT, Royal Trop Inst, Dept Hlth, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
>CDC, Nairobi, Kenya.
>NLTP, Minist Hlth, Nairobi, Kenya.
>
>In the above example, the record contains 7 authors while there
>are 5 institutions to which the authors belong (are affiliated).
>My problem is: how could one identify the institution, for
>instance, that the first author on the list belongs to?
>Seemingly, there are more than one author who belong to one
>institution. How could one tell who that are? I noticed that
>sometimes the sequencing of authors and that of the institutions
>do not correlate, is that true?
>
>Regards
>Bosire Onyancha
>PhD Student
>University of Zululand
>Private Bag x1001
>KwaDlangezwa, 3886
>RSA