Adjustment of the Source Data

If necessary, errors in the source data are corrected in the Journal Monitor (OAM-CH) to ensure high data quality. All adjustments are verified by qualified employees; no changes are performed based on automated processing only. 

ChemInform publishing years

In Unpaywall, issues of the journal ChemInform are sometimes labeled with the wrong publishing year. In this case, the publishing year is automatically replaced with the year included in the DOI. The publishing date is also set to 01 January of the corresponding year. 

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ROR institution names

The Journal Monitor (OAM-CH) harvests institution names directly from ROR, using the iso630 language labels English (“en”), French (“fr”) and German (“de”). To look up the ROR language labels of your institution you can use the link: https://api.ror.org/organizations/&”RORID (e.g. for University of St.Gallen https://api.ror.org/organizations/0561a3s31). If you need to change your institution name in either language (in accordance with your affiliation guideline), please submit a curation request directly to ROR. Updates in ROR usually take several months to take effect and be delivered from ROR to the Journal Monitor (OAM-CH).

 ISSN corrections

Incorrect ISSN information in the CrossRef journal list is corrected.

Unpaywall publisher names

Different spellings of publishers’ names in the Unpaywall data set are standardized so that a uniform spelling is used in the OA monitor. This also applies to publishers and imprints that have been acquired by umbrella publishers.

Examples: