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Sosia: Automatic author matching in Scopus on-line
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active_year restriction for search_group #39

Closed Michael-E-Rose closed 1 month ago

Michael-E-Rose commented 1 month ago

In search_group_from_sources(), we require the search group to publish in the same journals in two points in time:

  1. The first_year of the original, plus/minus the margin
  2. The active_year of the original, which may be earlier than the comparison_year

The second requirement doesn't make sense and we should drop it.

Michael-E-Rose commented 1 month ago

The requirement, that candidates have to publish in two periods is very effective in reducing the initial search group - even though the active_year requirement appears somewhat arbitrary and hard to control.

Instead, I propose this solution: we introduce about equal sized buckets of volumes, and candidates have to publish in all of them. The user gets to set the number of buckets (or their size). So, like it is the case right now, we look at multiple periods of the search sources, and the intersection of the authors of each of them constitutes the search group.