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Nature 453, 450 (22 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453450a; Published online 21 May 2008

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Name variations can hit citation rankings

Biji T. Kurien1

  1. Arthritis and Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA

The Correspondence 'Give south Indian authors their true names' (Nature 452, 530; 2008) and earlier News Feature 'Identity crisis' (Nature 451, 766–767; 2008) are highly relevant to calculations of PubMed citations and h-index (the number n of a researcher's papers that have received at least n citations).