diff --git a/src/app/core/shared/browse-definition.model.ts b/src/app/core/shared/browse-definition.model.ts
index a5bed53c9fd..91df756d6d3 100644
--- a/src/app/core/shared/browse-definition.model.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/shared/browse-definition.model.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { autoserialize } from 'cerialize';
+import { autoserialize, autoserializeAs } from 'cerialize';
 import { CacheableObject } from '../cache/cacheable-object.model';
 
 /**
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ export abstract class BrowseDefinition extends CacheableObject {
   @autoserialize
   id: string;
 
+  @autoserializeAs('metadata')
+  metadataKeys: string[];
+
   /**
    * Get the render type of the BrowseDefinition model
    */
diff --git a/src/app/core/shared/hierarchical-browse-definition.model.ts b/src/app/core/shared/hierarchical-browse-definition.model.ts
index d561fff643f..3ec441e2669 100644
--- a/src/app/core/shared/hierarchical-browse-definition.model.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/shared/hierarchical-browse-definition.model.ts
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ export class HierarchicalBrowseDefinition extends BrowseDefinition {
   @autoserialize
   vocabulary: string;
 
-  @autoserializeAs('metadata')
-  metadataKeys: string[];
-
   get self(): string {
     return this._links.self.href;
   }
diff --git a/src/app/core/shared/non-hierarchical-browse-definition.ts b/src/app/core/shared/non-hierarchical-browse-definition.ts
index d5481fcc8d0..cba6f3ecd65 100644
--- a/src/app/core/shared/non-hierarchical-browse-definition.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/shared/non-hierarchical-browse-definition.ts
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ export abstract class NonHierarchicalBrowseDefinition extends BrowseDefinition {
   @autoserializeAs('order')
   defaultSortOrder: string;
 
-  @autoserializeAs('metadata')
-  metadataKeys: string[];
-
   @autoserialize
   dataType: BrowseByDataType;
 }
diff --git a/src/app/item-page/simple/field-components/specific-field/item-page-field.component.ts b/src/app/item-page/simple/field-components/specific-field/item-page-field.component.ts
index fc526dabcc5..fc0ef6f7aae 100644
--- a/src/app/item-page/simple/field-components/specific-field/item-page-field.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/item-page/simple/field-components/specific-field/item-page-field.component.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core';
+import intersectionWith from 'lodash/intersectionWith';
 import { Item } from '../../../../core/shared/item.model';
-import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
+import { mergeAll, first, filter } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 import { BrowseDefinition } from '../../../../core/shared/browse-definition.model';
 import { BrowseDefinitionDataService } from '../../../../core/browse/browse-definition-data.service';
-import { getRemoteDataPayload } from '../../../../core/shared/operators';
+import {
+  getRemoteDataPayload,
+  getPaginatedListPayload,
+  getFirstSucceededRemoteData
+} from '../../../../core/shared/operators';
+import { BrowseService } from '../../../../core/browse/browse.service';
 
 /**
  * This component can be used to represent metadata on a simple item page.
@@ -17,7 +23,8 @@ import { getRemoteDataPayload } from '../../../../core/shared/operators';
 })
 export class ItemPageFieldComponent {
 
-    constructor(protected browseDefinitionDataService: BrowseDefinitionDataService) {
+    constructor(protected browseDefinitionDataService: BrowseDefinitionDataService,
+                protected browseService: BrowseService) {
     }
 
     /**
@@ -56,9 +63,20 @@ export class ItemPageFieldComponent {
      * link in dspace.cfg (webui.browse.link.<n>)
      */
     get browseDefinition(): Observable<BrowseDefinition> {
-      return this.browseDefinitionDataService.findByFields(this.fields).pipe(
+      return this.browseService.getBrowseDefinitions().pipe(
+        getFirstSucceededRemoteData(),
         getRemoteDataPayload(),
-        map((def) => def)
+        getPaginatedListPayload(),
+        mergeAll(),
+        filter((def: BrowseDefinition) =>
+          intersectionWith(def.metadataKeys, this.fields, ItemPageFieldComponent.fieldMatch).length > 0
+        ),
+        first()
       );
     }
+
+    private static fieldMatch(spec: string, field: string): boolean {
+      return field === spec
+        || (spec.endsWith('.*') && field.substring(0, spec.length - 1) === spec.substring(0, spec.length - 1));
+    }
 }