2025 June 17
Evolving the preprint evaluation world with Sciety
This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife.
Crossref performs some fuzzy matching, but for best results, queries for metadata which includes special characters should also include special characters.
For example, DOI https://doi.org/10.1260/095830506778119452 was deposited with the metadata shown below. Notice that the first author surname (ámon) has a numerical character entity, in this case the character á.
<journal_article publication_type="full_text">
<titles>
<title>Twenty years after chernobyl in Hungary: the Hungarian perspective of energy policy and the role of nuclear power</title>
</titles>
<contributors>
<person_name sequence="first" contributor_role="author">
<given_name>Ada</given_name>
<surname> ámon </surname>
</person_name>
</contributors>
<publication_date ="print">
<month>7</month>
<day>1</day>
<year>2006</year>
</publication_date>
<publication_date ="online">
<month>7</month>
<day>29</day>
<year>2009</year>
</publication_date>
<pages>
<first_page>383</first_page>
<last_page>399</last_page>
</pages>
<publisher_item>
<identifier id_type="pii">C8612851662R7W4H</identifier>
</publisher_item>
<doi_data>
<doi>10.1260/095830506778119452</doi>
</doi_data>
If we formulate a query that does not include page number, we must include the author using the entity and not some other form of character, for example:
No match:
<query key="mykey" enable-multiple-hits="false">
<journal_title>Energy & Environment</journal_title>
<author>ámon</author>
<volume>17</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<year>2006</year>
</query>
No match:
<query key="mykey" enable-multiple-hits="false">
<journal_title>Energy & Environment</journal_title>
<author>amon</author>
<volume>17</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<year>2006</year>
</query>
Match found:
<query key="mykey" enable-multiple-hits="false">
<journal_title>Energy & Environment</journal_title>
<author>ámon</author>
<volume>17</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<year>2006</year>
</query>