diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/DedupRecordFactory.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/DedupRecordFactory.java
index b8ae4ca021..d345cf98f1 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/DedupRecordFactory.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/DedupRecordFactory.java
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public class DedupRecordFactory {
 		entity.setId(id);
 
 		entity.setLastupdatetimestamp(ts);
-		entity.getDataInfo().setDeletedbyinference(false);
+		entity.setDataInfo(dataInfo);
 
 		return entity;
 	}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/EntityMergerTest.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/EntityMergerTest.java
index e86f91f996..aa3722ce51 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/EntityMergerTest.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/EntityMergerTest.java
@@ -77,7 +77,16 @@ class EntityMergerTest implements Serializable {
 		// verify id
 		assertEquals(dedupId, pub_merged.getId());
 
-		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal(), pub_merged.getJournal());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getName(), pub_merged.getJournal().getName());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getIssnOnline(), pub_merged.getJournal().getIssnOnline());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getIssnLinking(), pub_merged.getJournal().getIssnLinking());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getIssnPrinted(), pub_merged.getJournal().getIssnPrinted());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getIss(), pub_merged.getJournal().getIss());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getEp(), pub_merged.getJournal().getEp());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getSp(), pub_merged.getJournal().getSp());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getVol(), pub_merged.getJournal().getVol());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getConferencedate(), pub_merged.getJournal().getConferencedate());
+		assertEquals(pub_top.getJournal().getConferenceplace(), pub_merged.getJournal().getConferenceplace());
 		assertEquals("OPEN", pub_merged.getBestaccessright().getClassid());
 		assertEquals(pub_top.getResulttype(), pub_merged.getResulttype());
 		assertEquals(pub_top.getLanguage(), pub_merged.getLanguage());
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 86adee9022..45265d5baf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
 		<mockito-core.version>3.3.3</mockito-core.version>
 		<mongodb.driver.version>3.4.2</mongodb.driver.version>
 		<vtd.version>[2.12,3.0)</vtd.version>
-		<dhp-schemas.version>[2.10.29]</dhp-schemas.version>
+		<dhp-schemas.version>[2.10.31]</dhp-schemas.version>
 		<dnet-actionmanager-api.version>[4.0.3]</dnet-actionmanager-api.version>
 		<dnet-actionmanager-common.version>[6.0.5]</dnet-actionmanager-common.version>
 		<dnet-openaire-broker-common.version>[3.1.6]</dnet-openaire-broker-common.version>