A network of the top twenty most used identifiers for biologists on Wikidata. Ten of the more distinct identifiers are labelled with the font size proportional to the number of linked people. The other identifiers are the Dutch National Thesaurus for Author names, the Center of Warsaw University Library catalogue, International Standard Name Identifier, German National Library ID, Library of Congress authority ID, Bibliothèque nationale de France ID, the identifier for authority control in the French collaborative library catalogue, Freebase ID and WorldCat Identities ID, all of which cluster closely together with the VIAF ID due to the large amount of redundancy across those databases. Lastly, the botanist author abbreviation clusters with the IPNI author because there is a one-to-one relationship between these two identifiers. These data were extracted from Wikidata on 18-02-2022. They were visualised using Gephi (Bastian et al. 2009) using the Yifan Hu layout algorithm (Hu 2005) and the five coloured modules are identified using the algorithm of Blondel et al. (2008).

 
  Part of: Groom Q, Bräuchler C, Cubey RWN, Dillen M, Huybrechts P, Kearney N, Klazenga N, Leachman S, Paul DL, Rogers H, Santos J, Shorthouse DP, Vaughan A, von Mering S, Haston EM (2022) The disambiguation of people names in biological collections. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e86089. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e86089