  Following the work of Krumov et al. [Eur. Phys. J. B 84, 535 (2011)] we
revisit the question whether the usage of large citation datasets allows for
the quantitative assessment of social (by means of coauthorship of
publications) influence on the progression of science. Applying a more
comprehensive and well-curated dataset containing the publications in the
journals of the American Physical Society during the whole 20th century we find
that the measure chosen in the original study, a score based on small induced
subgraphs, has to be used with caution, since the obtained results are highly
sensitive to the exact implementation of the author disambiguation task.
