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Accurate Identification

June 28, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 26

Issuing IDs to individual scientists would be of value, not just to discriminate between two or more individuals, but also to ensure correct citation (“A Question of Identity,” C&EN, May 24, page 36). Recently, when I searched my own name in SciFinder, I noticed that a paper I had published in 1995 in the Journal of the Chemical Society was not included. Suspecting a spelling error, I searched under “Sundarajan” (omitting one set of ra from Sundararajan), and found it. I contacted SciFinder, and the error was corrected.

A personal ID would perhaps help Chemical Abstracts Service to verify each entry.

P. Sundararajan
Ottawa, Ontario

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