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The Publisher Item Identifier (PII) is a unique identifier used by a number of scientific journal publishers to identify documents.[1] It uses the pre-existing ISSN or ISBN of the publication in question, and adds a character for source publication type, an item number, and a check digit.

The system was adopted in 1996 by the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, Elsevier Science, and the IEEE.

Format

A PII (pii) is a 17-character string, consisting of:

  • one character to indicate source publication type: "S" = serial with ISSN, "B" = book with ISBN
  • ISSN (8 digits) or ISBN (10 characters) of the serial or book to which the publication item is primarily assigned
  • in the case of serials an additional two digit number to pad the difference between the 8-digit ISSN and an ISBN (suggested are the last two digits of calendar year of the date of assignment, which is not necessarily identical to the cover date)
  • a 5-digit number assigned by the publisher that is unique to the publication item within the serial or book
  • a check digit (0-9 or X)

When a PII is printed (as opposed to stored in a database), the 17-character string may be extended with punctuation characters to make it more readable to humans, as in Sxxxx-xxxx(yy)iiiii-d or Bx-xxx-xxxxx-x/iiiii-d.

Example

  • Buscemi, Lara; Ramonet, David; Klingberg, Franco; Formey, Aurélie; Smith-Clerc, Josiane; Meister, Jean-Jacques; Hinz, Boris (2011). "The Single-Molecule Mechanics of the Latent TGF-β1 Complex". Current Biology. 21 (24): 2046–2054. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.037. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 22169532. PII S0960-9822(11)01319-4.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Publisher Item Identifier as a means of document identification". Elsevier. 9 April 1998. Archived from the original on 2003-10-13.


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