Really really strange pdf identification

[Andrew Brown]

I was sent by the publishers  a pdf copy of Pope Benedict XVI's latest book, "The light of the World". I put it into my Zotero library, using the firefox extension. Testing the standalone Zotero I right-clicked and asked for it to be identified from the metadata. With very little hesitation, this result came back:

others. “Gene and protein expression profiles of Shewanella oneidensis during anaerobic growth with different electron acceptors.” Omics: a journal of integrative biology 6, no. 1 (2002): 39–60.

(in fact there are ten authors in the Info pane, but  "others" is listed as the first).

Is there any possible, obvious explanation for this result?

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[Avram Lyon]

More details of what was looked for should be in the debug output, but
since the book doesn't have a DOI, the approach is to take a snipped
of text from the PDF and give it to Google Scholar.

The "others" issue is because Google Scholar gives pretty bad author data.

In general, the PDF identification is pretty unreliable for
non-academic or non-article PDFs, since Google Scholar doesn't do much
for them.

Avram

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[Sean Takats]

And I guess you're placing all the blame on the Zotero side because of papal infallibility? The metadata lookup basically pulls a DOI from the text or searches Google Scholar for a snippet of extracted text. If you run Zotero from the terminal, you should be able to see what it's posting to Google. It's not a perfect system, but it does work most of the time. -Sean

[Andrew Brown]

Sean -- thanks. That made me laugh out loud. Avram, yes, this
explanation makes perfect sense.