Registry of Scientometric Data Sources

About this Registry

The diversity of scientometric data sources is large – and new ones are constantly being published, existing ones are changing, and others are being switched off. It is almost impossible to maintain a complete overview. In response we are collecting and describing several data sources for scientometric information in this registry.

This registry is a product of the project "Reference implementation for Scientometric Information" (ROSI) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project is located at the Open Science Lab of the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB).

The metadata of this registry is published under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

More information about the project ROSI:

• Project description at TIB
• Project description as part of the funding framework "quantitative research on the science sector" (in German)
• Project proposal in the RIO Journal

The Team

• Lambert Heller (VIVO profile) - Project Manager
• Christian Hauschke (VIVO profile) - Project Manager
• Grischa Fraumann (VIVO profile) - Research Assistant
• Svantje Lilienthal (VIVO profile) - Software Developer

Contact

If you miss data sources or would like to give feedback on the descriptions of the existing ones, please send us an email to rosi.project(at)tib.eu.

Code

This registry is based on a javascript web application. Find the code at GitHub.

Metadata Schema

The data sources in this registry can be described by the following metadata fields (* marks mandatory fields). See also the corresponding schema file.

• Name* - the name of the data source
• Link* - the link to the main page of the data source
• Link to Logo - a (persistent) link to an image
• Description - a description of the data source itself (if its a quote please enter the source as well)
• Category - category that describes the data source (Collaborative platform; Online social network; Repository; Data aggregator; Other)
• Entity - entity that can be described by this data source (Work; Person; Organisation; Event; Project)
• License - the license of the data
• Interface - link to API or other interface
• Type of Interface - the type of interface (REST API; HTTP API; HTTPS API; SPARQL Endpoint; other)
• Documentation - link to the documentation of the interface
• Data Format - lthe response data format (None; JSON; XML; Other)
• Comment - textarea for any form of comment

Glossary

• API - Application Programming Interface
• Category - Used to distinguish data sources based on their characteristics.
• Collaborative platform - A web service for users to create, comment and change data together.
• Data aggregator - A web service that collects and integrates data from more than one data source and makes the outcome available to external parties.
• Data format - The data format describes the technical format that can be harvested through the interface of a data source.
• Entity - An entity is an abstract class of conceptual objects (IFLA 2017). An entity is the object that can be described by indicators derived from a data source. Our entity types: Event, Organisation, Person, Project and Work.
• Event - An event can be a conference, a workshop, a meeting, etc.
• Indicator - An indicator gives a narrow view on a specific aspect. Examples: Number of open access publications; Mentions in Wikipedia; etc.
• Interface - An interface is the point of access to harvest data from a data source.
• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
• Online social network - A web service with the main objective to establish social interactions among its users.
• Organisation - An organisation refers to universities, research centres, departments, research groups, etc.
• Person - Mostly a researcher, but can also be anybody else
• Project - A project refers to research projects, third-party funded projects, etc.
• Repository - A web service that stores data, such as publications and research data, and makes it available to external parties.
• REST API - REpresentational State Transfer Application Programming Interface
• Scientometric - Umbrella term for quantitative studies of science (Sugimoto & Larivière 2018)
• SPARQL Endpoint - SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language
• Work - Work refers to research output of all kinds, e.g. articles, books, preprints, protocols, software, research data, etc.
• XML - Extensible Markup Language

Literature

• Sugimoto, C. R., & Larivière, V. (2018). Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford University Press.
• IFLA (2017). IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM).