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Author names in the CIR are passed through a normaliser at parse time that strips footnote-style LaTeX macros (\texttt{\textbackslash thanks{}}, \texttt{\textbackslash footnote{}}, \texttt{\textbackslash marginpar{}}, ...) and resolves styled macros (\texttt{\textbackslash texttt{}}, \texttt{\textbackslash textbf{}}, ...) to their argument. Two papers whose source declares the same author with different LaTeX styling resolve to a single canonical entry on the read path. The GET /authors rollup therefore counts each researcher once, not once per styling variant.