Resources

Deliverables

TOBI Streamlit app:

  • Open Metadata Tracker: An app to compare citations counts, references counts, and authors counts in Crossref, OpenAIRE, OpenAlex, OpenCitations and Semantic Scholar for a small sample of DOIs

Blogposts:

  • Blogpost: “Exploring Swiss Higher Education Institutions in Commercial and Open Bibliometric Databases” (04.07.2024)
  • Blogpost: “Exploring Swiss Higher Education Institutions in Commercial Bibliometric Databases” (09.04.2024)
  • Supplementary files:
    • Full list of Swiss higher education institutions found in open and commercial databases (OpenAlex, OpenAIRE; Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science): .csv file, .pdf file; detailed versions: .csv file, .xlsx file (last update: 22.07.2024)
    • List of identifiers for Swiss higher education institutions (including child-institutions): .csv file, .xlsx file (last update: 08.10.2024)
    • List of search queries for Swiss higher education institutions (including child- and related-institutions): .csv file, .xlsx file (last update: 08.10.2024)
    • List of institutions included for “ETH Zurich” in commercial databases (Dimensions, Scopus, WoS): .pdf file (last update: 27.03.2024)

Talks and presentations:

  • Slides of the presentation “How to improve the metadata coverage and quality of open databases?” given during the International Open Access Week 2024 in Switzerland, October 21-27th 2024
  • Slides of the presentation “How to curate open scholarly metadata databases?” given at the Paris Conference on Open Research Information, September 23-24th 2024
  • Paper and poster “Using missing data patterns to detect incorrectly assigned articles in bibliographic datasets” presented at the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2024), September 18-20th 2024
  • Slides of the presentation “What do open global scholarly metadata databases contain?” given at the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, June 3-6th 2024
  • Slides of the talk “Evaluating the quality and reliability of open bibliometric data for research assessment purposes in Switzerland” given at the Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023, October 26-27th 2023

First report (preliminary version):

Other resources

Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS):

  • SYoS Blogpost: SYoS is another project led by our team to promote responsible research assessment in Switzerland

Open scholarly metadata databases:

Dashboards based on open scholarly metadata databases:

  • Swiss Open Access Monitor: An Open Access Monitor for Switzerland with a Journal Monitor based on OpenAlex as well as other data sources, and a Repository Monitor based on data provided by participating institutions
  • COKI Open Access Dashboard: An Open Access Dashboard for countries and institutions worldwide based on OpenAlex, Crossref Metadata, Unpaywall and ROR
  • National Open Access Monitor Ireland: An Open Access Monitor for Ireland based on OpenAIRE
  • Hybrid Open Access Dashboard (HOAD): A dashboard highlighting the extent to which hybrid journals are part of transformative agreements, based on Crossref, OpenAlex and other sources

Knowledge maps based on open scholarly metadata databases:

Further resources: