Articles with organisations as authors

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We’re getting warnings like this in the “Schematron reports”:

W10: Only single contributor is present for DOI ‘10.64590/yrx’. Deposit all authors. INFO: [10]: single contributor for DOI: ‘10.64590/yrx’.

In all cases, these are related to articles with collective authorship–for example, political parties, editorial boards etc. We have registered these using <organization> and the name of the entity as in the example below. Should we be doing this differently? The error seems to indicate that use of this tag implies that there are more author names to list, but that is not the case.

<journal_article language="en" publication_type="full_text">
  <titles> <title>Presentation of Vilar</title> </titles>
  <contributors>
    <organization contributor_role="author" sequence="first">NLR Editors</organization>
  </contributors>
  <publication_date media_type="online">
    <month>08</month>
    <day>01</day>
    <year>1973</year>
  </publication_date>
  <publication_date media_type="print">
    <month>07</month>
    <day>31</day>
    <year>1973</year>
  </publication_date>
  <pages>
    <first_page>64</first_page>
    <last_page>64</last_page>
  </pages>
  <publisher_item>
    <item_number item_number_type="article_number">1146</item_number>
  </publisher_item> <doi_data> <doi>10.64590/yrx</doi>
  <resource>https://newleftreview.org/issues/i80/articles/nlr-editors-presentation-of-vilar</resource> </doi_data>
</journal_article>```
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Hi Rob,

The Schematron Report will flag instances where metadata is often commonly (but not always) incorrect or otherwise not ideal.

It’s a fairly common problem that members will have publications with multiple authors, but only submit the first author in the metadata they send to Crossref. So, we opt to flag instances of single authors only in the Schematron reports. That doesn’t mean there aren’t publications that legitimately only have one author.

If the metadata for 10.64590/yrx is accurate, then you can simply ignore this particular report.

As another example, one of things that Schematron flags is author names with special characters like “/”, “@”, “(”, etc., titles (“Dr.” or “Prof.”) or suffixes (“Jr.” “III” etc.) in the name tags, rather than in the appropriate <suffix> tag, and author names with numerals in them (often resulting from them having been copy-pasted from a manuscript with footnotes after author names indicating their affiliations). But there are sometimes authors that legitimately have numerals or special characters in their names (Jennifer 8. Lee; 3ric Johanson; Perri 6), which will get flagged by the Schematron report as well.

I hope that helps clarify.

-Shayn

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OK, thanks for the clarification, Shayn.

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