JSTOR problem with the Review Section

mark73 · November 17, 2012

There is a problem in the translator for JSTOR ("minVersion": "2.1.9", "lastUpdated": "2012-11-11 11:39:09" ) on the sites with a Review Section - the titles are not saved (it saves untitled) and reviewers' names are wrongly detected as authors' names.
A site to test is e.g. here:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/i25064360

Does anyone know how to fix it?

aurimas · November 17, 2012

I can reproduce this. I'll see what I can do to fix this over the weekend.

aurimas · November 17, 2012

I'm seeing some other issues, but the [untitled] is coming directly from JSTOR. I don't think there is anything we will be able to do about that. See http://www.jstor.org/stable/25064365 (note the [untitled] on the right). I'm not entirely sure what the title of that article is anyway. I don't think there's a title given in the PDF either.

And, for instance, at the same URL, the person reviewing the work is the author of the review. So, that's not wrong. Could you provide a stable URL where you think this is wrong?

mark73 · November 17, 2012

The person reviewing the work is indeed the author of the review of a patricular work, book, etc. So this one should be fine, thanks.

The title of that article is "The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall" and can be seen in the pdf and on the page for the entire Vol.29 here:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/i25064360

All articles there have names. However, going deeper by selecting an article (in the review section) yields e.g. Vol. 29, No. 1, Winter, 2003 > [untitled]. Maybe the titles' names can be stored somehow from the above volume page, since they are there? One should be able to save the correct names (and the rest information, which is ok) on this page, but the current translator does not allow it, though.

Could the problem be fixed on the volume page?

aurimas · November 17, 2012

The title of that article is "The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall" and can be seen in the pdf and on the page for the entire Vol.29 here:
My understanding is that, while the string "The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall" is used in the journal index to refer to the article, if you look closely, that exact phrase is not used in the PDF as a title. What you are referring to as the title in the PDF is a citation of the reviewed work and starts with “The Human Tradition in Modern Japan. Edited by Anne Walthall"