Clean Scopus Journals JobClean Scopus Journals Job

What

You would like to unmerge some Journals, which were erroneously merged.

How

• There is a job called Clean Scopus Journals.
• This job cleans Journals that have been incorrectly merged.

When can it be used?

• The Journals that the job is intended to clean up are the ones that have been merged incorrectly by the Merge Duplicate Journals job (AuthorProfileJournalDeduplicationJob).
  • When Journals are merged by the Merge Duplicate Journals job the merge details are added as a comment on the Journal with ReflectionMergeConverter as the username.
    • You can check, whether your Journals have this comment by opening the Journal editor window > History and comments:
       
    • If you have never run the Merge Duplicate Journals job (either as part of the sequential cron job "QABO data import & cleanup" or running it separately), then you will not be able to use this job, since you will not have the above comment on your Journals.

How does the job work?

• It will process all Journals that have a Scopus primary or secondary source ID and a comment from the user "ReflectionMergeConverter".
• It will split up a merged Journal by sending the ISSNs on the Journal to Scopus and then use the data received to create separate Journals (one Journal for each ISSN).
• If two Journals merged by the content merge job, has also been merged manually with a third Journal, then it is also split up.
• All the Research output relations from the merged Journal are transferred to the new Journals matching the same ISSN number that they were also related to on the merged Journal.
  • Journals which has been merged manually and does not have an ISSN, but has relations from its title to a Research output
    • This is logged and not moved
  • Merged Journals are deleted afterwards
    • If a Journals still has a relation, then it will not be deleted.

Job configuration

• It is possible to run the job in dry run mode. If enabled, the job will log information about the content it processes but it will not make any change:
• The job will log a warning if the merged Journal can't be deleted after it has been split up. This can happen if the merged Journal has a title with a relation to a Research output, as it can only move relations to the new Journals, if there also is a relation to an ISSN.

More information

KB-511 Merge Duplicate Journals job
5.18.0 Release notes
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