Try getting ORCID ids

(Disambiguating names first would make sense.)

https://info.orcid.org/documentation/api-tutorials/api-tutorial-searching-the-orcid-registry/#Expanded_Search

https://pub.orcid.org/v3.0/csv-search/?q=affiliation-org-name:ORCID&fl=orcid,given-names,family-name,current-institution-affiliation-name,past-institution-affiliation-name

Try full names and/or full names + affiliation(s).

Take a look at this:

https://github.com/Project-TAPIR/pidgraph-notebooks

Archived R package to query ORCID:

https://github.com/ropensci-archive/rorcid

Example use case:

https://github.com/Alphonzs/rOrcid/blob/master/orcid.R