What should I do if an author has multiple author IDs?

The creation of both author and affiliation profiles are automated processes performed by complex algorithms during content processing. The original data is sourced from thousands of publishers and contains numerous flaws due to language translations, differences in naming conventions, varied publishing and data standards, and more.

When matching documents to existing profiles, the algorithm will avoid misattribution. This will occasionally result in the creation of a new author profile for an existing author.

To address these situations, Scopus created Profile Wizards, allowing authors and affiliations to correct their profiles directly through the Scopus web interface. See further instructions on correcting an author profile in Scopus.

Once corrections are made in the Scopus database, they are immediately reflected in the API response data.