tesci

An interactive toolkit for merging data from multiple citation databases

Overview

TeslaSCIToolkit (abbrev. tesci) is a scientific mapping tool that comes with the following features:

1. Merging data from multiple citation databases
2. Restricting access to sensitive columns in data sources with aggregations
3. Exporting transformed data into other repositories
4. CI/CD integration, currently GitHub Actions

For examples and use-cases, see examples directory.

Quickstart

Aggregating data from a single database source

To create an aggregation of simple.csv based on average salary and age.

1. Interactive approach

tesci start -d simple.csv -o exported.csv​
tesci aggregate avg -c salary -a avg_salary​
tesci aggregate avg -c age -a avg_age​
tesci apply​

2. Configuration approach

aggregate:​
  - alias: avg_salary​
    column: salary​
    function: avg​
  - alias: avg_age​
    column: age​
    function: avg​
data:​
  dest: exported.csv​
  src: simple.csv

The result is a transformation from simple.csv to exported.csv:

Merging data from multiple citation databases

After retrieving data sources from citation databases of your choice, place the databases in a directory of your choice. Then, specify the configuration used for merging. An example of a configuration is here.

After specifying your configuration choices, merge can then by run with:

tesci similarity merge --first-src PATH --second-src PATH --dest DIR

where PATH and DIR refer to relative filesystem paths and directories.

Citing tesci

If you find tesci useful in your research, please support our work by citing our paper.

Nikolić, D., Ivanović, D., & Ivanović, L. (2024). An open-source tool for merging data from multiple citation databases.\ Scientometrics, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05076-2

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license.