Bug in author name parsing

adamsaltman · May 10, 2021

It has recently appeared that authors' names are not being parsed correctly. They are appearing as complete (first, middle, last) names in the last name field, with the other fields empty. This has been happening only over the past month or so. I use macos 11.3 Big Sur and Microsoft Edge browser with the browser plug in.

adamsmith · May 10, 2021

Author parsing varies by site. We'd need specific URLs to say more.

adamsaltman · May 10, 2021

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.003264

adamsmith · May 10, 2021

That's an AHA bug -- we've tried ask people to report it to them, but without success so far. Certainly worth trying again. See https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/377674 for some background

DWL-SDCA · May 10, 2021

@adamsaltman Please report this to the editor of the journal. The publisher even often gets it wrong when they submit metadata to the NLM for Medline/PubMed! As I said in the linked forum thread, the production staff at AHA journals do not seem to understand their (or accept that they have made) errors.

The short answer is that there is nothing Zotero can do to fix this.