Linkify author names & shorten the author list

[maxkfranz]

• It would be useful to link out each author name to a resource to find more information about the researcher, e.g. other papers. Start with Google Scholar.
• Shorten the author list. Include
  • the first author,
  • the last author,
  • N other authors max (perhaps 2-3).

Ref:

• Add a prototype UI #19

[maxkfranz]

Re. Google Scholar: Most places that link to Google Scholar link to a search on an author name. This gives you an annoying list where you have to figure out which Joe Researcher is the one you want.

Two ideas:

• Link to a search on the author name re. the category you're in
  • You're interested in this category, so clicking on an author name that gives you results also in the category may be nice. It's context sensitive.
  • E.g. clicking on 'Perry, G' for Synthesize Heterogeneous Biological Knowledge via Representation Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Repurposing could link to a search for Perry's articles re. Alzheimer's on GScolar
• Link directly to the author profile (if it exists) based on a cross-referenced search with the article title -- may be difficult/costly

[jvwong]

This semantic scholar 'academic graph' may have some useful information.

1. What authors should we show?

Provide a DOI (e.g. Synthesize Heterogeneous ...), and you can get the following info about the authors of that preprint:

[
		{
			"authorId": "1962328922",
			...
			"name": "K. Hsieh",
			"affiliations": [],
			"paperCount": 11,
			"citationCount": 45,
			"hIndex": 4
		},
		...
		{
			"authorId": "145317224",
			"externalIds": {
				"DBLP": [
					"George Perry"
				],
				"ORCID": "0000-0002-6547-0172"
			},
			"name": "George Perry",
			"affiliations": [
				"University of Texas at San Antonio"
			],
			"paperCount": 1233,
			"citationCount": 78123,
			"hIndex": 141
		},
		...		
	]

2. Disambiguating an author

The API also tried to link authors with their papers, but its a bit limited in just playing with my own name/id