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Generated bibtex keys not unique
Bibtex keys appear to just be formatted as just "[author surbname]_[year]". That is, last name of first author and year, separated by an underscore character. This commonly generates non-unique keys for multiple publications by the same author in the same year, which is a common occurrence for many use cases (for instance, the example given in the rorcid package is to extract the DOI information for all publications from a given author, and then use the rcrossref package to generate a bibtex file from that list of DOIs). The lack of non-unique keys poses a problem when attempting to refer to specific references by their key.
My current workaround is to use the RefManageR package to make the entries unique.
Session Info
- Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
setting value
version R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
os Windows 10 x64
system x86_64, mingw32
ui RTerm
language (EN)
collate English_Australia.1252
ctype English_Australia.1252
tz Australia/Brisbane
date 2021-01-27
- Packages -------------------------------------------------------------------
package * version date lib source
assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
bibliometrix * 3.0.3 2020-09-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
bibtex * 0.4.2.3 2020-09-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
callr 3.5.1 2020-10-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
cellranger 1.1.0 2016-07-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
cli 2.2.0 2020-11-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
cluster 2.1.0 2019-06-19 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
colorspace 2.0-0 2020-11-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
crul 1.0.0 2020-07-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
curl 4.3 2019-12-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
data.table 1.13.4 2020-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
desc 1.2.0 2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
devtools 2.3.2 2020-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
digest 0.6.27 2020-10-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
dimensionsR 0.0.2 2020-08-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
dplyr 1.0.2 2020-08-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
DT 0.16 2020-10-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ellipsis 0.3.1 2020-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
factoextra 1.0.7 2020-04-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
FactoMineR 2.4 2020-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
fansi 0.4.1 2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
farver 2.0.3 2020-01-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
fastmap 1.0.1 2019-10-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
fauxpas 0.5.0 2020-04-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
flashClust 1.01-2 2012-08-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
forcats 0.5.0 2020-03-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
foreign 0.8-80 2020-05-24 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
fs 1.5.0 2020-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
generics 0.1.0 2020-10-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ggforce 0.3.2 2020-06-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ggplot2 3.3.2 2020-06-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ggraph 2.0.4 2020-11-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ggrepel 0.8.2 2020-03-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
glue 1.4.2 2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
graphlayouts 0.7.1 2020-10-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
gridExtra 2.3 2017-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
gtable 0.3.0 2019-03-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
haven 2.3.1 2020-06-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
hms 0.5.3 2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
htmltools 0.5.0 2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
htmlwidgets 1.5.3 2020-12-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
httpcode 0.3.0 2020-04-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
httpuv 1.5.4 2020-06-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
httr 1.4.2 2020-07-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
igraph 1.2.6 2020-10-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
installr * 0.22.0 2019-08-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
IRdisplay 0.7.0 2018-11-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
IRkernel 1.1.1 2020-07-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
jsonlite 1.7.2 2020-12-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
knitr 1.30 2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
later 1.1.0.1 2020-06-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
lattice 0.20-41 2020-04-02 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
leaps 3.1 2020-01-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
lifecycle 0.2.0 2020-03-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
lubridate 1.7.9.2 2020-11-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
magrittr 2.0.1 2020-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
MASS 7.3-53 2020-09-09 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
Matrix 1.2-18 2019-11-27 [2] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
memoise 1.1.0 2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
mime 0.9 2020-02-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
miniUI 0.1.1.1 2018-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
munsell 0.5.0 2018-06-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
networkD3 0.4 2017-03-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
openxlsx 4.2.3 2020-10-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pbdZMQ 0.3-3.1 2020-10-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pillar 1.4.7 2020-11-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pkgbuild 1.1.0 2020-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pkgload 1.1.0 2020-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
plyr 1.8.6 2020-03-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
polyclip 1.10-0 2019-03-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
prettyunits 1.1.1 2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
processx 3.4.5 2020-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
promises 1.1.1 2020-06-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
ps 1.5.0 2020-12-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
pubmedR 0.0.3 2020-07-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
purrr 0.3.4 2020-04-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
R6 2.5.0 2020-10-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
RColorBrewer 1.1-2 2014-12-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
Rcpp 1.0.5 2020-07-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rcrossref * 1.1.0 2020-10-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
readxl 1.3.1 2019-03-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
RefManageR * 1.3.0 2020-11-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
remotes 2.2.0 2020-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rentrez 1.2.3 2020-11-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
repr 1.1.0 2020-01-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rio 0.5.16 2018-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rlang 0.4.9 2020-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rmarkdown * 2.6 2020-12-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rorcid * 0.7.0 2021-01-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rprojroot 2.0.2 2020-11-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
rscopus * 0.6.6 2019-09-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
scales 1.1.1 2020-05-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
scatterplot3d 0.3-41 2018-03-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
shiny 1.5.0 2020-06-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
shinycssloaders 1.0.0 2020-07-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
shinythemes 1.1.2 2018-11-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
SnowballC 0.7.0 2020-04-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
stringdist 0.9.6.3 2020-10-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
stringi 1.5.3 2020-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
stringr * 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
testthat 3.0.0 2020-10-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
tibble 3.0.4 2020-10-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
tidygraph 1.2.0 2020-05-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
tidyr 1.1.2 2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
tidyselect 1.1.0 2020-05-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
triebeard 0.3.0 2016-08-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
tweenr 1.0.1 2018-12-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
urltools 1.7.3 2019-04-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
usethis 2.0.0 2020-12-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
uuid 0.1-4 2020-02-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
vctrs 0.3.5 2020-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
viridis 0.5.1 2018-03-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
viridisLite 0.3.0 2018-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
whisker 0.4 2019-08-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
withr 2.3.0 2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
xfun 0.20 2021-01-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
XML 3.99-0.5 2020-07-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
xml2 1.3.2 2020-04-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
xtable 1.8-4 2019-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
zip 2.1.1 2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
Thanks for the issue. Are you looking for some sort of change in rcrossref? What are you after?
