research-software-directory / RSD-as-a-service

This repo contains the new RSD-as-a-service implementation
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RPC homepage_counts.software_mention_cnt differs from actual software mentions #1326

Closed cmeessen closed 3 weeks ago

cmeessen commented 1 month ago

The RPC output of homepage_counts differs from the actual sum of software mentions.

Example:

https://research-software-directory.org/api/v1/rpc/homepage_counts

currently returns

{
  "software_mention_cnt":2525
}

However, the software with most mentions already has more mentions:

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jmaassen commented 1 month ago

Could this mismatch be caused because only manually added mentions are counted, not the citations that are found automatically?