Better handling of no-article-found case

[maxkfranz]

Description

Q: What is the name of the feature?

A: Better handling of no-article-found case

Q: What does this feature enable the user to do?

A: Enter article details when article not found in Pubmed / Biorxiv.

Q: What information must the user provide to use the feature?

A:

• Author list / first & last (free text)
• Article title (already provided)
• Journal name
• Year

Q: What are the applicable constraints, e.g. compatibility or performance?

A:

• Everything but the author list is simple
• The author list could be formatted in lots of different ways (e.g. comma-separated, semicolons, initials, middle name...)
• Just do free text (good for display only) for author list and show as-is until populated by cron

Q: How does this feature affect each class of user (persona)?

A: This makes the author more confident that we've identified their paper (which may not yet be published) and that their information will be tied to it. Journals will appreciate that we will display correct citation information, even prior to publication.

Specification

Mockup

Version A. Add "journal"

Add a Journal input to the existing popup in the editor.

• Pros
  • Removes a lot of guesswork
• Cons
  • No year, authors
    • Used in matching algorithms

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Version B. Fall-back when unable to find match

When unable to match author's article, fall-back to a form with more fields.

• Cons
  • More work for an author
• Pros
  • We reuse current form (which generally works) and only use this in rare case of unmatched

Details

• See also Show 'coming soon' message for articles in the explorer w/o PubMed data #1183

[jvwong]

As we are piloting with Nature Cell Biology, I looked back at their last 3 issues (Volume 26, Issues 9-11) to get a sense of the relationship between preprints and the version of record/publication. In this period, where were N=34 research articles published.

The take home message Most published NCB research articles won't have a preprint, and for those that do, the titles won't be the same. Only 4/34 articles had a preprint with the same title. You mileage may vary depending on the journal.

Notes:

• PubMed and Crossref lack any information about relations between the preprint and publication, at least at the point of publication
• CrossRef provides information and code used to match preprints-articles
  • Incredibly accurate tool to match article DOI to preprint (100%): https://marple.research.crossref.org/match?task=preprint-matching&strategy=preprint-sbmv&input=10.1038/s41556-024-01541-5
  • Can we extract this, get the converse service: preprint --> publication?

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1. How long does it take for an accepted NCB article to end up on PubMed?

2. What proportion of NCB articles had an associated preprint?

3. For NCB articles with a preprint (N=15), what is the period between the posting and PubMed indexing?

4. For NCB articles with a preprint, how often are the titles identical?

[maxkfranz]

@jvwong

Hi, Jeff. I'll take a look at this one next week. Keep an eye out for the PR.

[jvwong]

@jvwong

Hi, Jeff. I'll take a look at this one next week. Keep an eye out for the PR.

OK - before the break I looked at the idea of a 'self-contained' journal search box.

unstable...iss1312_journal-input

I think the most useful part of this is (not shown) rather detailed list of journal synonyms and ID (aka ISSN code). Maybe some of this is useful.

[maxkfranz]

Yeah, that makes sense. I think validation/autocomplete isn't strictly necessary though, since eventually the cron job will clean it up anyway. It would be nice to have to make things quicker, though (less typing).

[maxkfranz]

I'll start with the minimal simple version and then we can take it from there.

[jvwong]

This is the node CML script that produces a list of journals, their synonyms and ISSNs. I manually added some preprints. I downloaded the raw data from https://www.scimagojr.com/. PubMed produces some file downloads for this sorta thing but frankly they were useless in practice.

https://github.com/jvwong/journal-list/blob/main/data/journal-list.json