Merge Duplicate Journals JobMerge Duplicate Journals Job

What

There are a lot of duplicate Journals inside your Pure and you would like to merge these.

How:

• There is a job called Merge Duplicate Journals.
• This job is normally a part of the sequential cron job "QABO data import & cleanup" (SequentialExecutingCronJob), but if you do not have PRS, then you will be able to run the job separately by finding it under Administrator > Jobs > Cron Job Scheduling and then under Create new job.
• The following matching rules apply:
  • Two Journals will only be merged if both:
    • Have Scopus as source or secondary source
    • Have the same Scopus source ID / secondary source ID
    • Have a matching ISSN (it will check in both ISSN, Electronic ISSN and Alternative ISSNs)
      
      All criteria must be met for the job to merge. That means a matching Scopus ID and at least one matching ISSN. 
• When Journals are merged by this job the merge details are added as a comment on the Journal with ReflectionMergeConverter as the username:
  
  

More information

KB-512 Clean Scopus Journals Job
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