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In the bibliography of an article I have to suppress the "series" field, and I use \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{series}}. It works as expected. However, in the related entries the series is printed anyway. What I am missing? This is a MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{Norberg:Introduction-fr,
  address = {Stockholm},
  author = {Norberg, Dag},
  publisher = {Almqvist \& Wiksell},
  title = {{I}ntroduction a l'étude de la versification latine médiévale},
  year = {1958},
  series = {Acta Universitatis Stockolmiensis. Studia Latina Stockholmiensia
    5},
  langid = {french},
   }
@BOOK{Norberg:Introduction-en,
  address = {Washington, D.C.},
  author = {Norberg, Dag},
  editor = {Ziolkowski, Jan M.},
  publisher = {Catholic University of America Press},
  title = {{A}n introduction to the study of {M}edieval {L}atin versification},
  year = {2004},
  related = {Norberg:Introduction-fr},
  relatedtype = {translationof},
  series = {Medieval Culture},
  langid = {american},
  translator = {Roti, Grant C. and de La Chapelle Skubly, Jacqueline}
  }
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authortitle,backend=biber,autocite=plain]{biblatex}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{series}}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
See \autocite[44]{Norberg:Introduction-en}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

If I cite the original text, not the translation, the series field is not printed. Output of MWE

Thanks you for your kind attention. guido, Italy

lukeflo
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    Generally speaking it is more effective to remove a field with a sourcemap. \clearfield often works well enough, but there are edge cases like this one that pop up from time to time and that are tricky to get right, so that's why I always recommend a sourcemap to get rid of a field. – moewe Sep 17 '23 at 16:19
  • Your suggestion is brilliant and works perfectly, thank you. I had never used \DeclareSourcemap before, but if I understand correctly this command works at a deeper level in comparison with \clearfield. It is interesting that e.g. a similar command with translator (\clearname) works also with related entries. Perhaps a clarification in the biblatex manual might be useful. Thanks a lot, my publisher will be grateful too... – user41386 Sep 17 '23 at 17:12

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