Item Type Letter

james.k.russell
modest feature request:
Letters to the editor of a journal are not peer reviewed and generally should not be used as citations. Setting their Item Type to Letter loses publication information. Setting their Item Type to Document or Journal Article is misleading.
Please either enhance Item Type with publication information, or create a Letter to Editor Item Type.
  • aborel
    edited 6 days ago
    Exactly why do you think they should they not be used as citations? If it's the only place where the author is saying something I must acknowledge, I would 100% cite this item, and the journal article item type provides the best possible information for a reader to locate the original.
    Now in the text, obviously I would use that information with more caution than a peer-reviewed article, but it's a different issue.
  • james.k.russell
    Whether to cite a non-peer reviewed article is a matter of author's discretion. Not really the issue. My point is that they are not the same as peer reviewed science, and I want to distinguish them for my purposes. And, as for you, I'd like the publication location to be preserved. I'm not saying there is no use for letters, they're just different.
  • adamsmith
    I have a non-peer reviewed tag. I don't use it for all items, but where the distinction matters
  • james.k.russell
    Helpful - I hadn't been using tags, an interesting feature.
    However - this brings up another issue. I am now depending extensively on Saved Searches. To exclude items tagged "letter" (for instance) from a moderately complex search (e.g. Title contains Cranio%cervical OR (i.e. using match any) CCI) requires adding a criterion (tag does not contain letter). But, that is a mix of AND and OR criteria (Any and All). This does not appear possible, except by making one search use Any and another use All, including the name of the search using Any. An easier means of implementing more complex searches (mixing Any and All criteria) would be welcome.
    Anyway, thanks, I'll see what I can accomplish with tags.
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