figuring out a base index for the tool

[tylerandrewscott]

I've been spending time with web-of-science/clarivate, and I'm not sure if they are a durable solution since all of their stuff is built to resists mass access (e.g., the WOS data I added here base built by hand-downloading citations from select journals). Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) allows you to load their entire database on a private server https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-academic-graph/ . The MAG API is being retired end of year, but that should affect the database. Here is what I'm picturing:

• MAG is the base/default index against which citations are searched
• obviously, MAG is huge. So a useful feature would be to build in say, two simple filter features like publication date and keywords.
• then, related to the other issue I raised, user could incorporate any custom indexes they also wanted to include

[avkoehl]

Leaving this link here so we dont lose it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach/