Following was reported by folks at Google Scholar. Observed behaviour Look at an item where one of the authors has special characters in the name, for example, http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/314 Go into "view source" and go to the HEAD section where the META tags are exposed. Compare what you see for authors in dc.creator, with the citation_* tags, like citation_author In creator, it's correct: meta name="DC.creator" content="ètésteinî" In citation_author, unwanted escaping is added. meta content="ètésteinî" name="citation_author" Desired behaviour meta name="DC.creator" content="ètésteinî" meta content="ètésteinî" name="citation_author" |