Analysis of T3 field

[globbestael]

TODO: clean up

• T3 (especially used in EMBASE (OVID)) has 3 types of content:

  • conference name (majority of cases)
  • original title
  • alternative journal name

• T3 for PsycINFO (OVID) also puts alternative journal names in this field, sometimes more than one separated with a comma:

  • T2 - Archives of Neurology
  • T3 - A.M.A. Archives of Neurology, JAMA Neurology

  ???: Many cases where T3 has the predecessor(s) of the journal of the publication.
  BUT: PsycINFO (OVID) also has the original title in T2 and the journal of T3 (ovid URL has "D=psyc10":is this PsycINFO?)

• T3 for PubMed can have "Retraction of: ...", "Retraction in: ...", ... e.g.

  • Retraction of: Cancer Lett. 2022 Mar 31;529:19-36. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2021.12.032 PMID: 34979165 [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34979165]
  • Retraction of: J Healthc Eng. 2022 Feb 18;2022:8507773. doi: 10.1155/2022/8507773 PMID: 35222894 [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35222894]
  • Retraction in: Comput Intell Neurosci. 2024 Aug 5;2024:9896585. doi: 10.1155/2024/9896585 PMID: 39139200 [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39139200]
  • [Erratum appears in Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2017 Jul 15;:; PMID: 28710675]

• T3 for WoS can contain the series title of the book (title of the book in T2)

  • Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology [BIG_SET 40620, 40621, TY is CHAP]

Present solution:

• skip it if it contains a number or "Annual|Conference|Congress|Meeting|Society"

  • "Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2014. Bali Indonesia."
  • "12th World Congress of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association. Sao Paulo Brazil.",
  • "International Liver Transplantation Society 15th Annual International Congress. New York, NY United States."

• add it as Title

• add it as Journal

• how many cases are there with Alternative journal name as content? There are examples in BIG_SET for PsychINFO_OVID records

• For WoS and PsycINFO chapters in a book within a series, the book title is T2, the book series is T3. Other databases often have only the book series as "journal" (T2)

• What is performance if this option is left out?

• Can the presence/absence of an ISSN be used to distinguish original title from journal name? Probably not

• Can the presence/absence of an ISBN be used to distinguish original title from journal name? Probably.

There is an attempt in IOService::readPublications for the T3 field to solve this, but this doesn't work very well for the McKeown test file. However, that McKeown test file has problems (because the original RIS files weren't imported correctly?) See Github issue 53

The other test files(e.g. BIG_TEST) also have cases with T3. The sheer number of cases with Proceedings titles in T3, make it difficult to see the other cases:

• It looks as if T3 for original title was an old Medline rule (before the OT field???). Should that have any influence on the choices for SedupEndNote?
• The series title for book chapters is necessary? Especially for Scopus records?
• PsycINFO with name of journal predecessors complicates it