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Q: On /paper/batch is the order of returned papers guaranteed to match the request order? #158

Closed PedroSena closed 3 months ago

PedroSena commented 8 months ago

Hi folks,

Assuming I request 3 papers A,B and C, using the /paper/batch endpoint, is it guaranteed that the response will respect that order ? I ask you that mainly because of the paper rerouting/deduplication mechanism Semantic Scholar has. For instance let's assume paper B and C return data for papers X and Y due to rerouting:

Requested Paper ID Returned Paper ID
A A
B X
C Y

Is it guaranteed that paper X is a rerouting for paper B and not a rerouting for paper C ? We are trying to capture those reroutings that Semantic Scholar does and having some trouble to identify the proper metadata to do it.

Thanks in advance,

PedroSena commented 8 months ago

To follow up:

I found this issue that seems related https://github.com/allenai/s2-folks/issues/47 but it is not clear whether this was fixed or simply was closed as being a duplicate (I suppose the linked repository is not public, thus resulting in 404)

cfiorelli commented 3 months ago

@PedroSena - There is a considerable "rabbit hole" of related issues internally and externally associated to this, and they're all closed - and seem "working as intended, but not documented clearly". If you're still impacted here could you please confirm back and share an update on details?

PedroSena commented 3 months ago

I agree with the assessment that this is working properly but lacks a more explicit documentation, it can be closed