Hindawi transl. : title & authors are repeated

DWL-SDCA

For example:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2015/210527/

This pattern of repeated article title, doi string, issn, and author list seems to be universal with Hindawi journals. Aside from the wretched state of Hindawi metadata in general, their practice of encoding punctuation and math signs in the abstract and some sort of imaging for p-values compounds my frustration. The publisher's inclusion on Beall's list notwithstanding, their articles are included in PubMed, PsycInfo, SCOPUS, and other main-stream databases. PubMed seems to repair the problem with repeated authors and the doubled title but Hindawi abstracts are a mess in the PubMed database even after their editing process.

I'm not sure much can be done to improve the Zotero treatment of Hindawi metadata but any help will be much appreciated.

adamsmith

Pull Request here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/972 , though it may take some time before we merge this.

You can download the new version from https://github.com/adam3smith/translators/raw/hindawi/Hindawi%20Publishers.js and use it to replace the current one in the zotero/translator folder if you're in a hurry and/or want to test.

DWL-SDCA

Thank you for fixing the repeated information however accented characters in the title and author names are still html entities or something else. The abstract still omits things such as p-values. Please see the following screen shots:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/as6k55ukxqy58pk/Screenshot 2015-11-28 18.43.54.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xiba7solje36g4/Screenshot 2015-11-28 18.43.34.png?dl=0

These are from the following item:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/neuroscience/2015/368989/

All this may be too much work for the benefit. I've twice written to Hindawi about this and, although they correspond with me about their journal cover images that they want me to include, they haven't acknowledged my messages about their metadata and obscured information in their abstracts.

Edit:

The doi translator gets the author names right, at least for this article:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gv64giw67968v7s/Screenshot 2015-11-28 18.57.13.png?dl=0

Thanks

adamsmith

Nothing I can do about the abstracts: The info is not at all in the metadata header and on the page itself, math is actually rendered via embedded SVG images, so there's no text version of it to be found anywhere.

I'll get the authors fixed, though.