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:

• Biologist:
• Editor:
• Computational biologist:
• Curator:

Specification

Mockup

Version A. Add "journal"

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

• Pros
  • Removes a lot of guesswork
• Cons
  • Still missing 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

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Version C. Supplement detail at validation

Only raise an issue at the submission stage (like pathway validation) and ask for more details here.

• Cons
  • More work at the end when they're impatient...
• Pros
  • We reuse current form (which generally works) and only use this in rare case of unmatched

Details

• See also #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?