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 curate open scholarly metadata databases?” given at the Paris Conference on Open Research Information, September 23-24th 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):
- Preliminary version of the first report: “Survey of scholarly open data” (last update: 05.08.2023)
- Data underlying the first report: .zip file (last update: 05.08.2023)
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:
- Open Knowledge Maps: A knowledge map based on PubMed or BASE
- SemOpenAlex Explorer: A knowledge graph based on OpenAlex
Further resources:
- Curtis Open Knowledge Initiative - Open Metadata Report: A report comparing open bibliometric databases at a global scale
- Data Quality in Scientometric Databases Datasets: Bibliography and reading notes on Data Quality and Difference in Bibliometric Databases (until 2021)
- VOSviewer: A software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks based on a selected source including OpenAlex, Crossref and Europe PMC