A cleaning method of DOI names of cited references in Web of Science (WoS).
With the establishment of digital object identifier (DOI) system in 1997, DOIs have been assigned uniquely to many digital objects. The DOI name is a case-insensitive alphanumeric string, and consists of two parts separated by a forward slash: (a) a prefix beginning with the numeral 10 assigned by IDF or by DOI registration agencies, and (b) a suffix assigned by the registrants.
Although comprehensive bibliographic databases, such as Scopus and Web of Science, largely promote the development of scientometrics and informetrics, they are not free of errors. So far, errors have been found to happen to many fields of publications, including the DOI field.
By definition, each DOI name should be unique and must identify one and only one entity. However, DOI errors present challenges for the data collection from different sources in order to avoid unwanted duplicate entries. In addition, it remains unknown that whether there are other types of DOI errors, how often each type of errors occur, and whether it is possible to automatically correct these errors.
Various DOI errors of cited references in the WoS database are deeply analyzed and a cleaning approach is put forward to alleviate the extent of DOI errors of cited references by Xu et al. (2019). This tool implements the cleaning approach. Please refer to Xu et al. (2019) for more details.
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> java -jar DoiCleaner.jar -dirName dir_name -outFileName out_fname
-dirName dir_name: the directory containing the bibliographic data in CSV format from Web of Science.
-outFileName out_fname: the output file name.
> java -jar DoiCleaner.jar -dirName data -outFileName dois.txt
Input data format: CSV format from Web of Science database
Output data format:
WoS ID:
\TAB cited reference information (not including DOI name) \TAB original DOI name \TAB cleaned DOI name [\TAB flag]
......
WoS ID:
\TAB cited reference information (not including DOI name) \TAB original DOI name \TAB cleaned DOI name [\TAB flag]
......
If the cleaned DOI name is illegal, or there are still multiple DOI names after cleaning, flag is set to true. Otherwise, \TAB flag disappears. Please check the 2nd example in the following for more details. If a cited reference is not attached any DOI name, it is just copied directly (cf. the 3rd one in the following).
WOS:000418594700004:
Achtman M, 2012, PLOS PATHOG, V8 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002776 10.1371/JOURNAL.PPAT.1002776
Clark CG, 2003, J CLIN MICROBIOL, V41, P27 [10.1128/JCM.41.1.27-33.2003, 10.1128/JCM>41.1.27-33.2003] 10.1128/JCM.41.1.27-33.2003, 10.1128/JCM>41.1.27-33.2003 true
Ferrari R, 2011, J INFECT DEV COUNTR, V5, P496
This tool is written by XU, Shuo from Beijing University of Technology. If you find this tool useful, please cite DoiCleaner as follows:
Shuo Xu, Liyuan Hao, Xin An, Dongsheng Zhai, and Hongshen Pang, 2019. Types of DOI Errors of Cited References in Web of Science with a Cleaning Method. Scientometrics, Vol. 120, No. 3, pp. 1427-1437.
For any question, please contact XU, Shuo at [email protected] OR [email protected].
[1] Shuo Xu, Liyuan Hao, Xin An, Dongsheng Zhai, and Hongshen Pang, 2019. Types of DOI Errors of Cited References in Web of Science with a Cleaning Method. Scientometrics, Vol. 120, No. 3, pp. 1427-1437.