diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/baseline_to_oaf_params.json b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/baseline_to_oaf_params.json
index 8326fab0f3..0fcc03266e 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/baseline_to_oaf_params.json
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/baseline_to_oaf_params.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [
-  {"paramName":"mt",  "paramLongName":"master",         "paramDescription": "should be local or yarn",                  "paramRequired": true},
-  {"paramName":"i",   "paramLongName":"isLookupUrl",    "paramDescription": "isLookupUrl",                              "paramRequired": true},
-  {"paramName":"s",   "paramLongName":"sourcePath",    "paramDescription": "the baseline path",  "paramRequired": true},
-  {"paramName":"t",   "paramLongName":"targetPath",     "paramDescription": "the mdstore path to save",                 "paramRequired": true}
+  {"paramName":"mt",  "paramLongName":"master",               "paramDescription": "should be local or yarn",                  "paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"i",   "paramLongName":"isLookupUrl",          "paramDescription": "isLookupUrl",                              "paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"s",   "paramLongName":"sourcePath",           "paramDescription": "the baseline path",                        "paramRequired": true},
+  {"paramName":"mo",  "paramLongName":"mdstoreOutputVersion", "paramDescription": "the mdstore path to save",                 "paramRequired": true}
 
 ]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/pubmed/oozie_app/workflow.xml b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/pubmed/oozie_app/workflow.xml
index 30eb414698..0f4c5c2495 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/pubmed/oozie_app/workflow.xml
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/pubmed/oozie_app/workflow.xml
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@
             <name>mdStoreManagerURI</name>
             <description>the path of the cleaned mdstore</description>
         </property>
-        <property>
-            <name>skipUpdate</name>
-            <value>false</value>
-            <description>The request block size</description>
-        </property>
     </parameters>
 
     <start to="StartTransaction"/>
@@ -44,16 +39,16 @@
             <arg>--mdStoreManagerURI</arg><arg>${mdStoreManagerURI}</arg>
             <capture-output/>
         </java>
-        <ok to="ConvertDataset"/>
+        <ok to="TransformPubMed"/>
         <error to="RollBack"/>
     </action>
 
-    <action name="ConvertDataset">
+    <action name="TransformPubMed">
         <spark xmlns="uri:oozie:spark-action:0.2">
             <master>yarn</master>
             <mode>cluster</mode>
-            <name>Convert Baseline to OAF Dataset</name>
-            <class>eu.dnetlib.dhp.sx.bio.ebi.SparkCreateBaselineDataFrame</class>
+            <name>Convert Baseline Pubmed to OAF Dataset</name>
+            <class>eu.dnetlib.dhp.sx.bio.ebi.SparkCreatePubmedDump</class>
             <jar>dhp-aggregation-${projectVersion}.jar</jar>
             <spark-opts>
                 --executor-memory=${sparkExecutorMemory}
@@ -65,12 +60,10 @@
                 --conf spark.yarn.historyServer.address=${spark2YarnHistoryServerAddress}
                 --conf spark.eventLog.dir=${nameNode}${spark2EventLogDir}
             </spark-opts>
-            <arg>--workingPath</arg><arg>${baselineWorkingPath}</arg>
+            <arg>--sourcePath</arg><arg>${baselineWorkingPath}</arg>
             <arg>--mdstoreOutputVersion</arg><arg>${wf:actionData('StartTransaction')['mdStoreVersion']}</arg>
             <arg>--master</arg><arg>yarn</arg>
             <arg>--isLookupUrl</arg><arg>${isLookupUrl}</arg>
-            <arg>--hdfsServerUri</arg><arg>${nameNode}</arg>
-            <arg>--skipUpdate</arg><arg>${skipUpdate}</arg>
         </spark>
         <ok to="CommitVersion"/>
         <error to="RollBack"/>
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/scala/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/SparkCreatePubmedDump.scala b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/scala/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/SparkCreatePubmedDump.scala
index c21bfd7c3b..1bdd2a4bcc 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/scala/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/SparkCreatePubmedDump.scala
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/scala/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/bio/ebi/SparkCreatePubmedDump.scala
@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.dhp.sx.bio.ebi
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper
-import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.{AbstractScalaApplication, ArgumentApplicationParser}
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.AbstractScalaApplication
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.vocabulary.VocabularyGroup
-import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Oaf
-import eu.dnetlib.dhp.sx.bio.pubmed.{PMArticle, PMAuthor, PMJournal, PMParser, PMParser2, PubMedToOaf}
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.mdstore.MDStoreVersion
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.sx.bio.pubmed.{PMArticle, PMParser2, PubMedToOaf}
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.utils.ISLookupClientFactory
-import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
-import org.apache.spark.sql.{Dataset, Encoder, Encoders, SparkSession}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{Encoder, Encoders, SparkSession}
 import org.slf4j.{Logger, LoggerFactory}
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream
-import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory
-
 class SparkCreatePubmedDump(propertyPath: String, args: Array[String], log: Logger)
     extends AbstractScalaApplication(propertyPath, args, log: Logger) {
 
@@ -24,16 +20,26 @@ class SparkCreatePubmedDump(propertyPath: String, args: Array[String], log: Logg
     log.info("isLookupUrl: {}", isLookupUrl)
     val sourcePath = parser.get("sourcePath")
     log.info(s"SourcePath is '$sourcePath'")
-    val targetPath = parser.get("targetPath")
-    log.info(s"TargetPath is '$targetPath'")
+    val mdstoreOutputVersion = parser.get("mdstoreOutputVersion")
+    log.info(s"mdstoreOutputVersion is '$mdstoreOutputVersion'")
+    val mapper = new ObjectMapper()
+    val cleanedMdStoreVersion = mapper.readValue(mdstoreOutputVersion, classOf[MDStoreVersion])
+    val outputBasePath = cleanedMdStoreVersion.getHdfsPath
+    log.info(s"outputBasePath is '$outputBasePath'")
 
     val isLookupService = ISLookupClientFactory.getLookUpService(isLookupUrl)
     val vocabularies = VocabularyGroup.loadVocsFromIS(isLookupService)
 
-    createPubmedDump(spark, sourcePath, targetPath, vocabularies)
+    createPubmedDump(spark, sourcePath, outputBasePath, vocabularies)
 
   }
 
+  /** This method creates a dump of the pubmed articles
+    * @param spark the spark session
+    * @param sourcePath the path of the source file
+    * @param targetPath the path of the target file
+    * @param vocabularies the vocabularies
+    */
   def createPubmedDump(
     spark: SparkSession,
     sourcePath: String,
@@ -54,6 +60,7 @@ class SparkCreatePubmedDump(propertyPath: String, args: Array[String], log: Logg
       })
       .filter(s => s != null)
       .map { i =>
+        //remove try catch
         try {
           new PMParser2().parse(i)
         } catch {