Author names abbreviated to one letter in Most Productive Authors (Bibliometrix)

[giuliaksanches]

hi everyone,

I'm trying to run a bibliometric analysis using bibliometrix, but I'm having trouble with the author names displayed in the Most Productive Authors output.

When I run:

results <- biblioAnalysis(dados_finais_analise, sep = ";")

the output looks like this:

As you can see, some authors appear only as a single letter, like J, M and Y. I tried several ways to fix this so that the ACTUAL AUTHOR NAME ( “Zhang Y” instead of “Z”) appears in the plots and summary tables, but nothing worked.

I also thought that the single letter might refer to the author’s first name after the surname, but when I manually add a comma after surnames in the AU column (Li, Y), the result shows as “L,” instead of the correct name.

Could someone please help me figure out how to make the author names appear correctly in the results and plots?

Thank you very much!

[massimoaria]

Are you using Scopus data? Recently, Scopus introduced several changes to its bibliographic metadata format (author names, cited references, affiliations, etc.). We are planning to release an updated version of bibliometrix next week to address these changes. This will be a major release featuring numerous enhancements and improvements, including:

• A completely new Content Analysis module
• Author Bio Card functionality
• Enhanced Community Repulsion algorithm
• New Citation Matching algorithm
• Life Cycle Analysis
• AI-powered article summaries in Biblioshiny
• Improved OpenAlex and PubMed API integration
• And much more!

In the meantime, you can download the developer version from GitHub using the following code:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("massimoaria/bibliometrix")

Please let us know if this resolves your issue or if you encounter any problems with the development version.