Dear OpenAlex team,
Great work on bringing the author count down by such a number. It is a lot closer to what you would expect the real number of authors to be.
I was wondering if you have statistics on how accurate the result is. There will be many cases where multiple author identifiers correctly get associated with the same author, but naturally there will also be more cases where a work incorrectly gets associated with the wrong author. Do you have any idea how often this happens? Was there a percentage you were aiming for? That would be very helpful in communicating to users.
I don't know if this helps, but I have a couple of cases where a work gets associated with the wrong author (with a very similar name):
Correct author: The correct author is a thyroid surgeon I could not find an identifier for, the associated author is a political scientist.
Correct author: The correct author is a surgeon I could not find an identifier for, the associated author is a geographer.
Best,
Peter Lombaers