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Revisiting the decay of scientific email addresses

View ORCID ProfileRaul Rodriguez-Esteban, Dina Vishnyakova, View ORCID ProfileFabio Rinaldi
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/633255
Raul Rodriguez-Esteban
1Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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Dina Vishnyakova
1Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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Fabio Rinaldi
2University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Andreasstrasse 15, Zürich, CH-8050; Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland
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Abstract

Email is the primary means of communication for scientists. However, scientific authors change email address over time. Using a new method, we have calculated that approximately 18% of all authors’ contact email addresses in MEDLINE are invalid. While an unfortunate number, it is, however, lower than previously estimated. To mitigate this problem, institutions should provide email forwarding and scientific authors should use more stable email addresses. In fact, a steadily growing share already use free private email addresses: 32% of all new addresses in MEDLINE in 2018 were of this kind.

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Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Dina Vishnyakova, Fabio Rinaldi
bioRxiv 633255; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/633255
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Revisiting the decay of scientific email addresses
Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Dina Vishnyakova, Fabio Rinaldi
bioRxiv 633255; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/633255

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