Nuclear Data Section
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Memo CP-D/698
Date:
To:
From:

16 May 2011
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N. Otsuka, M. Herman

Subject:

Automatic DOI number creation

According to the Action 9 of the NRDC 2010 Meeting “Find algorithm of automatic
DOI number creation and issue Memo”, we report the result of our assessment.
We found simple relations between bibliographic information (volume, page) andDOI numbers for a few journals:
JournalPhys. Rev. CJ. Nucl. Sci Technol.
J. Phys. G (Vol. 35-)

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.$vol.$paper
10.3327/jnst.$vol.$page
10.1088/0954-3899/$vol/$issue/$paper

Example10.1103/PhysRevC.83.024601
10.3327/jnst.44.815
10.1088/0954-3899/38/6/065001

But many cases (e.g. journals published by Elsevier, Springer), we do not see such
simple relation.
Example: Nucl. Phys. A (Vol. 857 and Vol. 858)
Vol.
857

858

Page
1-8
9-15
16-28
29-41
42-47
1-10
11-31
32-47
48-66
67-85
86-94
95-105

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.005
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.006
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.007
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.008
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.012
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.011
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.010
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.009
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.04.002
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.12.001
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.013
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.03.014

Accepted
9 March 2011
11 March 2011
16 March 201118 March 2011
28 March 2011
23 March 2011
20 March 2011
20 March 201110 April 2011
2 December 2010
28 March 2011
31 March 2011

Available online
15 March 2011
16 March 2011
22 March 2011
23 March 2011
2 April 2011
8 April 2011
23 March 2011
23 March 201115 April 201110 December 2010
8 April 2011
5 April 2011

It seems to us the DOI of Nucl. Phys. A is currently assigned as
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.$year.$month.$seq, where $year and $month are taken from date of acceptance, and $seq is asequential number of acceptance. This means we cannot create these DOI numbers
from standard bibliography information. Remember that now Elsevier puts article pdf
files on Science Direct with DOI numbers before assignment of page number.
Probably paper numbers of Phys. Rev. C and J. Phys. G are assigned in sequence ofacceptance.
Conclusion: There is no general algorithm to generate DOI numbers applicable to theEXFOR REFERENCE.

Remarks:(1) DOI numbers coded in the EXFOR Master File were checked in January 2011.
Totally 234 DOI numbers were found and 74 erroneous coded lines werereported in Memo CP-D/679.
(2) Cross Ref® is providing the “free DOI look up” service
at http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/. On this webpage, one can obtain aDOI number from the ISSN number (or Journal Title), volume and page
number of the article.

Example of DOI Search (Nucl. Phys. A Vol.857 p1)

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