Author name mishandling in 2collab exports

smd · December 18, 2007

Users beware: Exports of journal article citations from Elsevier's 2collab consistently contain mangled author data. For example, RIS exports shift authors' last names relative to the first names, resulting in one too many authors and incorrect first/last name pairing. BibTeX exports are also foobarred. Naturally, importing these into Zotero results in incorrect entries.

Codec · December 19, 2007

Do you have some example data and a description of what you did?

smd · December 21, 2007

For example, go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-4H4T10C-4&_user=10&_coverDate=12%2F15%2F2005&_alid=666950842&_rdoc=5&_fmt=summary&_orig=search&_cdi=6821&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=9&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=9a2f53e8ccf79d27cc942aaa21eb0db3 then hit the "Add to 2collab" button. In 2collab, export the bookmark to RIS, open the RIS in a text editor, and note that the first and last names of the authors are incorrectly paired. This happen 100% of the time in 2collab.