Ticket #191 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Add self-reference field to ISI table.

Reported by: rduhon@IU.EDU Assigned to: mwlinnem@IU.EDU
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Description

Add a field containing a self-reference to the current paper, identical to the format used by the references column. Details to follow, but one key field is J9 (for the journal name's format). Most of the construction is fairly obvious, but there are a few edge cases.

Change History

03/05/08 16:57:24 changed by mwlinnem@IU.EDU

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Working on this now. It actually seems pretty nicely done, unlike some formats I know. There are a couple weird things though.

Some papers claim one name for the journal they are published in, but are ALWAYS cited using another name, for instance I have a paper that claims it was published in "EARTH PLANET SCI LETT" but absolutely everything cites it as "HILGEN FJ, 1991, EARTH PLANET SC LETT, V107, P349". It seems that each token in the title of the citation is always shorter than or equal to the length of the title in the original paper, so this should be semi-easy to work with.

Another interesting one is a paper always cited as "DAWES C, 2004, ARCH ORAL BIOL, V49, P665, DOI

10.1016/j.archoralbio.2004.02.007", which does not contain any DOI information in the paper itself. How they know the DOI is 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2004.02.007 is beyond me. This makes it impossible to create this a self-reference using the given data. We can however "solve" this one by simply chopping the DOI off of any citations we see, which forces them to conform to the self-reference we give the original paper.

03/12/08 15:44:37 changed by mwlinnem@IU.EDU

Current Status:
Completed implementation.
Currently we normalize the journal names with an heuristic which attempts to match the journal name a paper claims it belongs to with a journal name that other papers cite. In almost all cases it makes a correct match, but since the journal names appear to be human-entered there is no guarantee of a correct match.

Future Work
* Add "all citations" column, which combines the self-citation with the normal citations (used for applying co-authorship style algorithm to citations) (?)

08/13/08 12:15:45 changed by mwlinnem@IU.EDU

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Task mentioned in "Future Work" above is no longer needed.