Tag Archives: R
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
Software, slides, videos, e-prints and articles
There are now three separate and partly overlapping views on (alt)metrics of Aalto University research outputs, published roughly during the last decade. Majority is from recent years, but few date back to early 2000. The variety and incompleteness reflects the … Continue reading
Altmetrics from different angles
As of this week, there are exactly 900 articles published by Aalto University since 2007 recorded by Web of Science of Thomson Reuters, having a DOI, and with some altmetrics aggregated by Altmetric. With this data at hand, I made … Continue reading
Status update
Just came here to mention briefly that now the new altmetrics app has also a tab for a ggvis graph. I made it to show the comparison between the number of authors and Web of Science citations by Thomson Reuters. … Continue reading
New take in recent (alt)metrics
Since November last year, quite a lot has been going on in altmetrics and various tools supporting their use. Of course, new research articles has been authored and published, too. A while ago, RStudio launched ShinyApps.io, a hosted version of … Continue reading
Exercise in mapping GBIF data
I know it is a bit pathetic to advertise your doings elsewhere. Still, because this is my last working week before a longish holiday during which I might encounter one or two of the data items in question, I’ll let … Continue reading
Data from the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Last Sunday was the Finnish Music Day. That reminded me of the historically important data set of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The data includes details not just from the concerts performed by the Orchestra itself, but also from all concerts … Continue reading
Locale from the ORCID Public Data File
After one year from its start, the ORCID community has published the first Public Data File. I downloaded it, and had a brief look at the data. It comes both in XML and JSON, one file per ORCID record. The … Continue reading
Smorgasbord of altmetrics
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the two-day 18th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy 2013 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Tweets from the workshop as a short Storify story. Together with my colleagues … Continue reading
