A RECENT announcement from The Scientific World website has thrown the chemical information mailing list CHMINF into a tizzy. Apparently, the medical database MEDLINE is to abstract The Scientific World journal. But how will it be referenced? The official name is TheScientificWorldJOURNAL. And, yes, all those capital letters really should be there.
The worry is that MEDLINE will create a whole range of variations on the title in its abstracts, meaning the journal might be listed under several different names, such as Scientificworldjournal, TheScientificWorldJournal, and so on. And this could result in Web searches failing to locate it.
But it…
