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Olly Butters edited this page Jul 13, 2020 · 12 revisions

We are using several APIs. This page will give an overview of each API used and what for.

Altmetric

Altmetric https://altmetric.com displays the number of interactions a publication has had based on data sources such as Twitter, blogs, policy writers, patents etc. This should give a more holistic view of the impact of a publication.

doi.org

https://doi.org is the canonical source of DOI resolution. It has a limited set of metadata about publications.

Elsevier/Scopus

Scopus (owned by Elsevier) has a broad metadata collection based on publications. A key part of this is the citation count it offers. https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html 20000 API call limit. Look at the headers of a call to https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus?apiKey= to see how many you have left. Can use something like postman to

Google Charts

Used for drawing charts on the html pages.

PubMed

PubMed has very detailed metadata, but only on a subset of publications.

WikiData

WikiData is used to geocode first author institutes via its SPARQL query API.

Zotero

The source of the list of papers.

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