Incorrect entries from RIS exported by bvsalud.org
Visit http://bvsalud.org (English, Spanish and Portuguese languages available), search something, and click the export icon, choose RIS, and open that file with Zotero.
The entries will have at least 2 issues:
1. If the data come from Pubmed, instead of LILACS, author names will be in a single field, with last name and initials, like "Souza MA", instead of "Souza"/"MA".
2. Year is something like "2010/12PY - 2010" instead of "2010" or "2010-12".
Could anyone please check for me if BVS is really exporting wrong RIS, or else if it's Zotero which isn't importing it correctly?
Thanks!
The entries will have at least 2 issues:
1. If the data come from Pubmed, instead of LILACS, author names will be in a single field, with last name and initials, like "Souza MA", instead of "Souza"/"MA".
2. Year is something like "2010/12PY - 2010" instead of "2010" or "2010-12".
Could anyone please check for me if BVS is really exporting wrong RIS, or else if it's Zotero which isn't importing it correctly?
Thanks!
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https://gist.github.com/adam3smith/4a161f7b5b6a5b3d6363
There is no explanation and no excuse for the date issue.
The names issue might be due to where they get their data from, but I though they could just grab it from NCBI Pubmed, in which case, again, there's no excuse for these mangled names. We do see the same in some MEDLINE databases like, I believe, Ovid, though.
(I googled for the RIS specs, and the AU field should be "Surname, Name, Suffix", not "Surname Name".)