Incorrect journal abbreviations

[susilehtola]

JabRef version

5.15 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

No response

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

The journal Frontiers in Physics gets abbreviated by AIP Conf. Proc.

Looking at the internal abbreviations database, it appears that the database is corrupt: there are hundreds of entries with completely different names that are abbreviated with AIP Conf. Proc.

The issue also affects at least JabRef 5.13 and 5.15.

Appendix

No response

[Siedlerchr]

In the latest development version, it's fine

You can try the version here https://builds.jabref.org/main/
We highly recommend to create a backup of your bib files before

[susilehtola]

Nope, as I wrote above, the bug occurs in the development version, and it hasn't been fixed in the last 24 hours.

[Siedlerchr]

Ah okay, I see the difference. I was running from source. The data comes from the web of science csv
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/refs/heads/main/journals/journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dotless.csv
It appears that it includes conference name proceedings, which are indeed part of AIP/related to the AIP stuff
I don't know much about this if these conferences have their own abbreviations?

https://su.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Journal_abbreviations_from_Web_of_Science/3207787

[susilehtola]

The problem is that an incorrect abbreviation is made: the journal Frontiers in Physics gets abbreviated by AIP Conf. Proc. even though the American Institute of Physics is a different publisher.

[susilehtola]

"Bioorganic Chemistry" gets abbreviated to "Top. Curr. Chem.", and then again to "Top Curr Chem" and then again to "Tubulin-binding Agents: Synthetic, Structural and Mechanistic Insights".

[koppor]

This refs our internal issue https://github.com/JabRef/jabref-issue-melting-pot/issues/41

[koppor]

The problem is that an incorrect abbreviation is made: the journal Frontiers in Physics gets abbreviated by AIP Conf. Proc. even though the American Institute of Physics is a different publisher.

Data for this:

Following two files are used

• journal_abbreviations_ubc.csv
• journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dots.csv

Thus, the "Web of Science" is the bad source. That list is NOT automatically updated.

The last update was a rewrite of the separators, two years ago. The data is even older. From 2016: "Dialysis-related Amyloidosis","Contrib Nephrol","",""

The data quality seems to be of low quality:

"Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe","Adv Lif Sci","",""
"Dialysis-related Amyloidosis","Contrib Nephrol","",""

We therefore remove all of these abbreviations.