  Entity resolution is a challenging and hot research area in the field of
Information Systems since last decade. Author Name Disambiguation (AND) in
Bibliographic Databases (BD) like DBLP , Citeseer , and Scopus is a specialized
field of entity resolution. Given many citations of underlying authors, the AND
task is to find which citations belong to the same author. In this survey, we
start with three basic AND problems, followed by need for solution and
challenges. A generic, five-step framework is provided for handling AND issues.
These steps are; (1) Preparation of dataset (2) Selection of publication
attributes (3) Selection of similarity metrics (4) Selection of models and (5)
Clustering Performance evaluation. Categorization and elaboration of similarity
metrics and methods are also provided. Finally, future directions and
recommendations are given for this dynamic area of research.
