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I was very annoyed with the Elsevier's journals. Many of them do not provide the page number of the paper.

For example, see, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168420302176

You can not find any page number, expcept a weird seris of numbers "Volume 176, November 2020, 107674".

Should I use that "107674" as the page number? (If I do this in bibtex , it would looke like pp. 107674)

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    Yes, that's normal, and 107674 is the page number.
    – Anonymous Physicist
    Commented Jun 12, 2020 at 7:47
  • Or should it should be issue number?
    – null
    Commented Jun 12, 2020 at 7:48
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    @Vibex Yes, I totally understand. It is the reviewer complaining about it without giving any solutions.
    – null
    Commented Jun 12, 2020 at 8:00
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    On the page you linked, go to "Export" and export the citation to your favorite reference manager. (You are using a reference manager, aren't you? If not, start using one.)
    – user9482
    Commented Jun 12, 2020 at 8:03
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    @Vibex, people are different. I use page numbers all the time to find papers from references...
    – Snijderfrey
    Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 21:50

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Officially that number seems to be called Article Number (see the Table of Contents of Vol. 176 of that journal; the journal seems to have switched from 'page numbers' to 'article numbers' with Vol. 166).

It nevertheless seems safe to call it the page number. The reason is that Elsevier itself deposited that 'article number' as the 'page'-metadata in CrossRef (a depository for research papers' metadata).

See here: http://api.crossref.org/works/10.1016/j.sigpro.2020.107674, where it says: "page":"107674"

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    Website like CrossRef or Google Scholar uses web spider to crawl data from the internet automatically. As a web developer, I do not think we should directly use the provided metadata, as they might be wrong.
    – null
    Commented Jun 15, 2020 at 13:01

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