Merge pull request #502 from wcmc-its/canonicalPubTypeTweaks-2

Added "guideline", "case report" canonical pub types; preferred PubMe…
wcmc-its · Jan 3, 2023 · ba161b3 · ba161b3
2 parents 63b56a4 + 1549948
commit ba161b3
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/src/main/java/reciter/algorithm/util/ArticleTranslator.java b/src/main/java/reciter/algorithm/util/ArticleTranslator.java
@@ -467,11 +467,7 @@ private static void determinePublicationTypeCanonical(ReCiterArticle reCiterArti
                     ||
                     reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Classical Article")
                     ||
-                    reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Scientific Integrity Review")
-                    ||
-                    reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Guideline")
-                    ||
-                    reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Practice Guideline")) {
+                    reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Scientific Integrity Review")) {
                 publicationTypeCanonical = "Review";
             } else if(reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypePubmed().contains("Case Reports")) {
                 publicationTypeCanonical = "Case Report";
@@ -512,6 +508,13 @@ private static void determinePublicationTypeCanonical(ReCiterArticle reCiterArti
             }
         }
 
+/*
+
+## The below code uses publication type data from Scopus to infer publication type. Scopus has its virtues but it is commented out 
+## for now so that we rely on PubMed exclusively. The reasoning is:
+## 1. PubMed is freely available
+## 2. More commonly used, and 
+## 3. Less aggressive about mapping publications to what they call "articles" and what we would map to "academic articles."
 
     	if(reCiterArticle.getPublicationTypeScopus() != null && scopusArticle.getSubType() != null) {
     		if(scopusArticle.getSubType().equalsIgnoreCase("cp")
@@ -550,6 +553,7 @@ private static void determinePublicationTypeCanonical(ReCiterArticle reCiterArti
     			publicationTypeCanonical = "Article";
     		}
     	}
+*/        
     	reCiterArticle.setPublicationTypeCanonical(publicationTypeCanonical);
     }