Article ID numbers
Santosh Patnaik
Saturday, 26 April 2008 07:23 UTC
Every Nature Precedings article (not different versions) has a unique identifying number that is used in the DOI handle, URL, etc. The numbers appear chronological, with newer articles getting a larger number.
The latest identifying numbers have crossed 1,800. However, there are only around 400 Nature Precedings articles online as of now. What explains the difference? Rejected submissions?
PS: The BASE academic search engine states that it currently covers around 1,200 Nature Precedings articles. Another mismatch, but explanable as BASE counts every version as a separate document?
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This is indeed a mystery and unfortunately I can’t provide much enlightenment here. The only thing we can say is that the “missing” documents are only those that were not posted for one reason or another.
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