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Clean and normalize title in bibliography

norm_title.Rd

For title, we do the following string normalization.

  • remove trademark "(TM)"

  • convert letters to lowercase

  • remove punctuation

  • remove all space

Usage

norm_title(title)

Arguments

title

A character vector (e.g., a column in a data frame)

Value

Normalized character vector

Examples

title <- c("Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime (TM) CT assay with the BD ProbeTec (TM) ET assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a clinical microbiology laboratory",
"Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime CT assay with the BD ProbeTec ET assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a clinical microbiology laboratory",
"Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime(tm) CT assay with the BD ProbeTec(tm) ET assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a clinical microbiology laboratory",
"beta-lactam Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Current Status, Future Prospects" )

norm_title(title)
#> [1] "evaluationoftheabbottrealtimectassaywiththebdprobetecetassayforthedetectionofchlamydiatrachomatisinaclinicalmicrobiologylaboratory"
#> [2] "evaluationoftheabbottrealtimectassaywiththebdprobetecetassayforthedetectionofchlamydiatrachomatisinaclinicalmicrobiologylaboratory"
#> [3] "evaluationoftheabbottrealtimectassaywiththebdprobetecetassayforthedetectionofchlamydiatrachomatisinaclinicalmicrobiologylaboratory"
#> [4] "betalactamresistanceinpseudomonasaeruginosacurrentstatusfutureprospects"