Fail to search Academic Medicine venue

[mededmentor]

Describe the bug The paper bulk search API does properly filter by the Academic Medicine venue.

To Reproduce Look at a paper that is published in the journal Academic Medicine. https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/1e514d774d79df5b2266bbac1784ce7964129306?fields=title,venue,publicationVenue

Results: {"paperId": "1e514d774d79df5b2266bbac1784ce7964129306", "publicationVenue": null, "title": "Responding to Patients and Society in Distress.", "venue": "Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges"}

The venue name appears to be "Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges"

However, using that venue as the search in the API does not work. It returns a bunch of unrelated papers.

https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search/bulk?venue=Academic%20medicine%20:%20journal%20of%20the%20Association%20of%20American%20Medical%20Colleges&fields=title,venue,year&year=2023-

Trying to search with ISO4 abbreviation "Acad Med" also does not work. It returns 0 entries. https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search/bulk?venue=Acad%20Med&fields=title,venue,year&year=2023-

Expected behavior Searching using the venue name should work, either with ISO4 or with the venue name.

Additional context https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?venue%5B0%5D=Academic%20medicine%20%3A%20journal%20of%20the%20Association%20of%20American%20Medical%20Colleges&q=medical%20education&sort=relevance

Interestingly, searching using the search filter works.

[cfiorelli]

Moving to triage on backend board:

• Text search should be exact match on venue field
• Proposal have search either match normalized venue ID OR exact match unnormalized venue name

[rodneykinney]

One issue here is that the venue search string "Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges" actually combines the names of two different journals:

"name": "Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges",
"type": "journal",
"alternate_names": [
"J Assoc Am Med Coll"
],
"issn": "0095-9545",

and

"name": "Academic Medicine",
"type": "journal",
"alternate_names": [
"Acad Med"
],
"issn": "1040-2446",

This is why the example paper has a "venue" (un-normalized name) but not a "publicationVenue" (normalized).

[rodneykinney]

Fixed search to work for both normalized and unnormalized venue names:

https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search/bulk?venue=Academic%20medicine%20:%20journal%20of%20the%20Association%20of%20American%20Medical%20Colleges&fields=title,venue,year&year=2023-

{
"total": 372,
"token": null,
"data": [
{
"paperId": "002da3dedb3b306a6d33e8691f288a4df01bab7a",
"title": "Sharps Injuries Among Medical Trainees and Attending Physicians",
"venue": "Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges",
"year": 2023
},
{
"paperId": "00c7c96d804d0f03e7de46a3d7cd185256073247",
"title": "Coaching in Humanism: A Pilot Program for Medical Students.",
"venue": "Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges",
"year": 2023
},
...

[cfiorelli]

FYI @mededmentor

[mededmentor]

It works, thanks everyone!