Incorrect family names for authors because of affiliation script

Publishers often use alpha, i.e., [a-z], superscripts to denote affiliations for authors and when retrieving journal information from stored metadata the superscripts can appear as though they are part of the author's family names. When these superscripts are numeric, they do not pose a problem.

How to search for authors of the form XXXX versus XXXX[a-z] when both can be legitimate? For example,

        Montresorc               Marina
        Montresor                Marina

        Gabele                   T.
        Gabel                    Thomas

the first example represents an error and the second example represents two legitimate author names.

Ideas

• When family names are similar as in both of these examples, we could search the html for both names using curl and grep.
• Nelson created awk programs to split and organize names such as the list above.
• use orcid to check names

The issue identifies an affiliation script but no file or test. Start by locating that script and compare the Montresor/Montresorc and Gabel/Gabele examples; the proposed HTML search with curl and grep may help investigate the source metadata. Done should prevent affiliation letters from becoming family names without changing legitimate author names.