Evaluation of unique identifiers used for citation linking [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Unique identifiers (UID) are seen as an effective tool to create links between identical publications in databases or identify duplicates in a database.The purpose of the present study is to investigate how well UIDs work for citation linking.We have two objectives: Explore the coverage, precision, and characteristics of publications matched versus

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