{"id":278,"date":"2009-06-24T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/06\/24\/on_journal_disambiguation\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:46:00","slug":"on_journal_disambiguation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/06\/24\/on_journal_disambiguation\/","title":{"rendered":"On Journal Disambiguation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind <del>author<\/del> contributor ID, or DOIs for articles, or whatever (I can&#8217;t be bothered looking up the links): I&#8217;m currently trying to find correct names for and de-duplicate entire <em>journals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/nature\/headache.png\" alt=\"ouch\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/>\n<em>there must be a better way<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nI have to match up all occurrences of a journal&#8217;s name, including misspellings and tyops, in our database and correct them to the canonical abbreviation. For further enjoyment I&#8217;d like the URL of the journal&#8217;s main page, where one exists. <\/p>\n<p>\nPubMed, frankly, is a bit crap at finding journal names and their homepages. Anyone know of a good resource? Preferably one with an API or at least a script-friendly interface.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the meantime, my favourite journal so far is<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Meded Rijksuniv Gent Fak Landbouwkd Toegep Biol Wet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nclosely followed by the laconic<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Pain<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind author contributor ID, or DOIs for articles, or whatever (I can&#8217;t be bothered looking up the links): I&#8217;m currently trying to find correct names for and de-duplicate entire journals. there must be a better way I have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/06\/24\/on_journal_disambiguation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}