The Journal of Clinical Investigation

DOI Workflow

CrossRef

November 14, 2011

Who

American Society for Clinical Investigation

One journal published

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Number of articles: ~550 per year

Frequency: Monthly issues, Weekly batches

Internal production since 1999

Hosted online HighWire Press 1996 – 2007

Self hosted 2008 – present

What

How

Queries

Example of a single

InDesign reference

NLM/JATS XML

AppleScript Query

Piped query using cURL

AppleScript adds new

DOI element to InDesign

DOI added

The article displays the link online

Deposits

Article XML is exported out of InDesign

Uploaded to web server

Converted to CrossRef XML

Timed deposit of batches and issues Four hours before publication

NLM XML CrossRef XML Deposit

Ruby XSLT

Ruby

FileUploader

Cited-by linking

Since we are self-hosting, it’s the best way

to represent this information

Cited-by linking con’t.

Queried CrossRef for cited-by data for all 26k articles

Saved results to a database

Accumulated 650,000 citations

Enabled cited-by alerting for all articles

Daily sweep of incoming email from CrossRef

~500 – 1000 new citations a day

Lots of interesting data

Overall success

Thanks

Ken Beauchamp

Developer

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

jci.org