Query - merging RIS files

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Discussed in asreview/asreview#1870

^{Originally posted by Emanuel-1986 October 7, 2024}
Hi,

I have downloaded RIS files from Embase(Elsevier), CINAHL (Ebsco), and Epistemonikos. Then, I downloaded the .nbib file from PubMed and converted it to RIS using RefWorks software.

To check that ASreview reads the RIS files, I used the describe argument and none of the RIS files had any missing titles, and a very small fraction had missing abstracts, but a chunk were unlabelled. When I merged all the 4 RIS files using vstack argument, the number of missing abstracts and titles increased dramatically. This also happened when I merged 2 RIS files, as shown in the table below.

Can you help me overcome this? Am I doing something wrong with the code when using vstack?

Regards,
Emanuel

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Database / merged file	Missing abstracts	Missing titles	Unlabelled	Number of records
PubMed	1	0	1721	1721
Embase	247	0	Null	7762
CINAHL	108	0	1405	1405
Epistemonikos	10	0	Null	907
Pubmed + Embase	1968	0	9483	9483
CINAHL + Epistemonikos	118	1405	2312	2312
All 4 merged	4280	10888	11795	11795

Code:

cd C:\Users\Schembri\Desktop
asreview data describe pubmed.ris
asreview data describe Embase.ris
asreview data describe CINAHL.ris
asreview data describe epistemonikos.ris
asreview data vstack output/merged_RIS_file.ris Pubmed.ris Embase.ris CINAHL.ris epistemonikos.ris
asreview data describe output/merged_RIS_file.ris

Version information

• OS: Windows
• Browser: Chrome
• ASReview version: 1.2.1

[J535D165]

We will address this issue in asreview/asreview#1820. However, a fix to datatools is still welcome.