New Scopus Author IDs, ScopusSearch() return results with the new ID

[raffaem]

I think the following author changed his SCOPUS ID for some reason.

But ScopusSearch returns the search results even if you pass the old ID. The problem is that the publications report the new ID.

Moreover, AuthorRetrieval works with both the old and the new ID.

I would expect some more consistent behavior (like ScopusSearch and AuthorRetrieval to stop working under the old ID).

Is there some way to retrieve the new ID from the old one?

from pybliometrics.scopus import ScopusSearch
from pybliometrics.scopus import AuthorRetrieval
from pprint import pprint
auid = 56962874000
res = ScopusSearch(f"AU-ID({auid})")
pub0 = dict(res.results[0]._asdict())
#pprint(pub0)
pub0_authids = pub0["author_ids"]
index = pub0_authids.find(str(auid))
print(index) #returns -1

au = AuthorRetrieval(auid)
print(au.given_name)
print(au.surname)
print(pub0["author_names"]) #Schwenke is the third author

new_id = pub0["author_ids"][2]
au = AuthorRetrieval(auid)
print(au.given_name)
print(au.surname)

[raffaem]

I found out AuthorRetrieval .identifier and .historical_identifier objects!

[Michael-E-Rose]

Yes, and I also wanted to point at https://pybliometrics.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tips.html#database-updates.

The reason that the old IDs still work is that Scopus forwards from the merged profiles. Using the .identifier property of a fresh AuthorRetrieval() object you can find out whether the current ID is the same as the one you used. pybliometrics will throw some kind of warning if that's not the case.

For the Scopus Search API no such validation test is possible.