Today it was announced that institute disambiguation, or the affiliation identifier, will become functional in Scopus early January 2008. At this promotional site it is demonstrated what a search for the University of Liverpool returns in options of selection the right University of Liverpool and whether or not you want to include the teaching hospitals in a subsequent search as well.
Web of Science already included a refine option with an affiliation option amongst others, but they way the results are presented for Scopus shows that Elsevier has taken a different approach to solving this problem.
It will be interesting to test both approaches in more detail when the Scopus tool is officially launched.
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