Greetings,
To my understanding OJS does not have a mechanism to association multiple affiliations to a single contributor out of the box.
Considering the following example for an author with two affiliations:
John Smith 1,2
- Office of research, University of ABC
- XYZ Medical research centre
A user cannot enter affiliations into individual fields per item and therefore must use an arbitrary separator (e.g., a separator character or a number) to isolate each affiliation. In my example below I used a number inside a bracket: [n]
Therefore, the information in my example should be entered into OJS in the following format:
Author Name Fields: John Smith
Affiliation Field: [1] Office of research, University of ABC [2] XYZ Medical research centre
This is a poor practice enforced because of the way OJS works. One of the areas that it negatively affects is the PubMed XML export plugin.
The same information converted by PubMed XML plugin will be generated in this syntax:
<Author>
<FirstName> John</FirstName>
<LastName> Smith </LastName>
<Affiliation> [1] Office of research, University of ABC [2] XYZ Medical research centre </Affiliation>
</Author>
Which will be displayed as:
John Smith 1
[1] Office of research, University of ABC [2] XYZ Medical research centre
Which is not ideal and looks odd when there is more than one author with multiple affiliations. (Additionally, plugin drops <AffiliationInfo> tag that supposed to wrap the <Affiliation> tag, which is a separate issue).
Now, I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion how to avoid this (In OJS or in the Plugin). Otherwise, the PubMed XML plugin will not be particularly useful because of the considerable manual editing needed to address this post export.
Thank you,
Kasra