Title
Deterministic bibliometric disambiguation challenges in company names
Author
Belz, Andrea (University of Southern California)
Graddy-Reed, Alexandra (University of Southern California)
Shweta, F. N.U. (University of Southern California)
Giga, A. (TU Delft Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship) 
Murali, Shivesh Meenakshi (University of Southern California)
Department
Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship
Date
2023
Abstract
Peer-reviewed publications and patents serve as important signatures of knowledge generation, and therefore the authors and their organizations can represent agents of intellectual transformation. Accurate tracking of these players enables scholars to follow knowledge evolution. However, while author name disambiguation has been discussed extensively, less is known about the impact of organization name on bibliometric studies. We expand here on the recently defined phenomenon of onomastic profusion, high-frequency words used in organization names for semantic reasons, and thus contributing a non-random source of error to bibliographic studies. We use the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I awardees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a use case in the field of engineering innovation. We find that firms in California or Massachusetts experience a six percent decrease in the likelihood of using the word Technologies in their names. Furthermore, use of the words Research and Science is linked to doubling the number of awards. We illustrate that, in aggregate, firms executing rational strategic naming decisions can create deterministic bibliometric challenges.
Subject
bibliometric
disambiguation
names
NASA
NLP
patents
SBIR
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC56153.2023.00047
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Embargo date
2023-09-20
ISBN
9781665482639
Source
Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2023
Event
17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2023, 2023-02-01 → 2023-02-03, Virtual, Online, United States
Series
Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2023
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2023 Andrea Belz, Alexandra Graddy-Reed, F. N.U. Shweta, A. Giga, Shivesh Meenakshi Murali