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Publisher Item Identifier (PII)

ID publisher_item_identifier

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Identifier of an article or chapter, used since 1996 by Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, IEEE and other publishers. It has 17 characters: S for a serial or B for a book, the ISSN or ISBN of the publication, for serials two more digits (often the year), a five-digit item number and a check character. In print it is often punctuated as Sxxxx-xxxx(yy)iiiii-d. Elsevier uses the PII as the item part of its DOIs.

Categories
Publishing and print, Scientific
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Bioregistry
pii
Quality
85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
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Regular expression

^(?:S\d{4}-?\d{3}[\dX](?:\(\d{2}\)|\d{2})\d{5}-?[\dX]|B\d{9}[\dX]\d{5}[\dX])$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
S0960-894X(96)00515-XArticle in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, printed form
S0960894X9600515XThe same PII as a 17-character string
S0960-894X(96)0051-X invalidThe item number must have five digits

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