Add indicators of authors quality based on forward citations

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Sosia: Automatic author matching in Scopus on-line

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Add indicators of authors quality based on forward citations #20

Closed ste210 closed 5 years ago

ste210 commented 5 years ago

It can be done by looking for REF(eid) and counting citations in a window of time (for both focal and matches author). It would be very nice to have, but also very demanding as many queries would be used and it would take time.

Michael-E-Rose commented 5 years ago

It could be done even faster with the CitationsOverview() class of scopus, but this requires a special API key.

ste210 commented 5 years ago

This can be done now much more easily and efficiently using the query_size() function. It should be enough to build a function that queries the list of papers that cite the papers of an author and are published before the year provided (REF(eid OR eid OR ...) AND PUBYEAR BEF X) and get only the size result