diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/graph/SparkConvertRDDtoDataset.scala b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/graph/SparkConvertRDDtoDataset.scala
index 141b7b0736..4b82fe6455 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/graph/SparkConvertRDDtoDataset.scala
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/sx/graph/SparkConvertRDDtoDataset.scala
@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ object SparkConvertRDDtoDataset {
     log.info("Converting Relation")
 
 
-    val rddRelation =spark.sparkContext.textFile(s"$sourcePath/relation").map(s => mapper.readValue(s, classOf[Relation])).filter(r=> r.getSource.startsWith("50") && r.getTarget.startsWith("50"))
+    val relationSemanticFilter = List("cites", "iscitedby","merges", "ismergedin")
+
+    val rddRelation =spark.sparkContext.textFile(s"$sourcePath/relation")
+      .map(s => mapper.readValue(s, classOf[Relation]))
+      .filter(r=> r.getSource.startsWith("50") && r.getTarget.startsWith("50"))
+      .filter(r => !relationSemanticFilter.exists(k => k.equalsIgnoreCase(r.getRelClass)))
     spark.createDataset(rddRelation).as[Relation].write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).save(s"$relPath")