Author lists do not deduplicate authors with differing numbers of initials

[corneliusroemer]

When there are multiple author lists due to e.g. direct submission and publication being present on a Genbank record and the 2 publications contain the same author with differing numbers of initials, NCBI virus and datasets seem to not deduplicate the authors.

Note that Marti,M.A. and Marti,M. is the same individual appearing twice in NCBI virus (and datasets):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&ids=MG773272

The likely root cause is that the authors list is generated by making a set of authors from all references of the genbank record:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MG773272.1

In this case, the direct submission lists Marti,M. while the publication has Marti,M.A..

[olearyna]

Hi corneliusroemer,

Thanks for opening the issue and for providing the example. I’ve let the NCBI Virus team know about the issue so they can take a look.

Best,
Nuala