Category Archives: Coding
Policy sources and impact
Since some time already, Altmeric has harvested information on how much various policy and guidance documents have been citing research publications. The way they do it is mainly by text-mining the References section of PDF documents, and verifying results against … Continue reading
Email anatomy of a project
When a HE project runs more than few years, and when it keeps more people busy than just some, it generates a substantial amount of email. Of course, IM has been among us for quite some time, but it has … Continue reading
Making titles to match
Research and citations Since a few months now, the Aalto University CRIS back-end has served the research active personnel and other inclined staff. Since last week, the front-end site was opened to the public. One of the most interesting aspects … Continue reading
Towards more automation (and better quality)
Few weeks ago, CSC-IT Center for Science opened the much awaited VIRTA REST API for publications (page in Finnish). VIRTA is the Finnish higher education achievement register, a tool to be utilized in the authoritative data harvesting in the way … Continue reading
Mining REF2014 impact case studies
The British 2014 Research Excellence Framework is a landmark in recent European academic life, no matter from what angle you look at it. One of its novelties was Impact Case Studies, a collection of impressive 6,975 items which showcase how … Continue reading
Wikipedia outreach by field of science
Since the previous posting, the Scholarly Article Citation dataset on Figshare has been upgraded to include also DOIs. Great! I’d imagine that unlike with PMIDs, there’d be more coverage from Aalto with DOIs. Like in all altmetrics exercises so far, … Continue reading
Cited in Wikipedia
In a recent blog posting Altmetric announced that they have added Wikipedia to their sources. Earlier this month, WikiResearch tweeted about a CC0-licensed dataset upload to Figshare, Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia. The dataset is a 35+ MB file of … Continue reading
Bot
Twitter bots is something I like a lot. Up until now, I haven’t ventured into making one myself, which is a bit unfortunate because earlier, the process of getting an R/W access for a bot was much easier. Anyway, thanks … Continue reading
Journal Metrics by Scopus
Some days ago, William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, tweeted about the availability of the latest Journal Metrics. The experimental web application of (alt)metrics on our publications since 2007 includes now Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2013 … Continue reading
On game articles and megajournals
On a hot work day like this, you need to take a relaxing break from time to time. While at it, why not play with the altmetrics web app? For example, you might ask yourself: are there any publications on … Continue reading
