DOI import error when DOI contains parentheses. Publisher, the American Society of Civil Engineer

[Mr. B]

Hi there,
We've been experiencing some issues with the import publication details using
DOI feature when the DOI contains parentheses. See for example
10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30242-X, where multiple publications are found.
Parentheses are pretty rare in DOIs but there is one publisher, the American
Society of Civil Engineers, that includes them in all publications, see for
ex: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000342.

Any help would be appreciated!!

[Chris Gray]

Recently I was doing work with APIs and I ran across the documents for the Crossref REST API at https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc.

This includes the following warning:

"You should always url-encode DOIs and parameter values when using the API. DOIs are notorious for including characters that break URLs (e.g. semicolons, hashes, slashes, ampersands, question marks, etc.)."

Parentheses can be encoded as  %28 and %29.