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Link to publications not indexed for MEDLINE #71

Open sbesson opened 3 years ago

sbesson commented 3 years ago

The initial logic for creating an hyperlink from the study to their associated publication makes extensive use of the PubMed ID metadata stored in the top-level container annotation - see

https://github.com/ome/omero-gallery/blob/352a9bcc227bf35ca63a3735b19d1a641dab0af5/src/categories.js#L266-L270 https://github.com/ome/omero-gallery/blob/bd3b20e8b5bb5b6240b97e3cc5d60d702df7764d/src/search.js#L558-L568

This assumption typically makes sense as the majority of published manuscripts associated with IDR studies are indexed by MEDLINE. However, we discovered recently this statement does not hold for all journals/publications e.g. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-020-0026-6 / idr0076.

For handling this type of scenario, it might make sense to use the Publication DOI value as the authoritative source of truth about whether a paper has been published in a journal and:

/cc @francesw