Group: CiteULike-discussion - Forum Thread

Topic: Bug reports

[COMPLETED] Wrong publication date grabed from IEEE Xplore

When trying to add an article from the IEEE Xplore the wrong publication date is taken. I see there are two date fields in IEEE Xplore format: Publication Date and Current Version Published. The first one corresponds to conference dates or journal issue date, the second to the appearance in IEEE Xplore. So if the paper is published in a journal in 1990, but in IEEE Xplore in 2002, the year 2002 is taken as the publication date in citeulike. This brings only confusion, since all other data (journal number, issues, pages) are correct for the journal.

Please, check.

Posted by mkolja on 2009-11-13 09:26:23.

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Can you post a specific example, please?

Posted by thegoose on 2009-11-13 09:30:12.

I've changed a few things. It's not clear to me that this is always the right thing to do, though.

Posted by thegoose on 2009-11-13 09:49:58.

Thanks, but it still doesn't work for me. Example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=6179&arnumber=240727&count=85&index=1

Original publication on 1992, citeulike takes 2002. There is no reference to IEEE Xplore what soever (ok, only to IEEE), so I don't understand why the conference is still ICUPC, but the year is 2002. for me it looks like the conference in the year 2002. Same for journals.

Posted by mkolja on 2009-11-13 15:38:12.

Argh. It's because they put the dates in hard-to-parse formats like

     Publication Date: 29 Sep-1 Oct 1992

We try that first (and fail), the resort to the next best "Current Version Published: 2002-08-06"

I will try harder.

Posted by thegoose on 2009-11-13 15:51:13.

I tried harder. Slight downside it that it now takes the later date "1 Oct 1992". In my opinion it's pretty dumb having a publication date as a range, anyway.

Posted by thegoose on 2009-11-13 15:57:34.