Issue parsing some WoS exports with Group Authors. about tethne HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi there, @Phocion; glad to hear that you're finding Tethne useful! I think that I see where the hiccup is occurring. Any chance you could send along some sample data? (send to [email protected])

Thanks!

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Thanks for the quick reply! Just sent an email as requested under my Drexel U. account.

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Ok, see whether that works. The group author ('CA') field is now treated like a regular author in readers.wos.convert. The issue was that values from CA are included in the author address field ('C1'), and so the bit of .convert() that does author-institution mapping got confused.

In the future, we should think harder about what else we might want to do with the CA field.

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Oops, closed automatically. Feel free to close if this resolves the problem.

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Thanks for the quick response! I'll test and confirm within the hour. One thing to consider about the CA field - at least specifically in the way I'm thinking - is that it's used to cite a body of contributors from where the analyzed data originated. Many papers include "and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative" at the end of the author's list if they used the ADNI dataset in their analysis. It's a specific way of citing this effort. Just a thought to consider.

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Looks great! Issue resolved. Thanks again for the quick turn-around!

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