def clean_authors(authors):
    authors = authors.strip().replace('<span class="author-names">', '').replace('</span>', '')
    authors = authors.split(',')

    new_authors = []
    for author in authors:
        if is_organization(author):
            new_authors.append(author)
        else:
            if ' and ' in author or ' <em>et al.</em>' in author:
                split_name = author.replace(' <em>et al.</em>', '').split(' and ')
                new_authors.extend(split_name)
            else:
                new_authors.append(author)
    return new_authors
Cleam authors list.
dataset/ETHPy150Open CenterForOpenScience/scrapi/scrapi/harvesters/lwbin.py/clean_authors