This is an idea for a webpage I had for a while.It will be a metrics system to for scientific research. It will allow measure research integrity, ranking, publication output, citation behavior, …
The main part is the parser, it would process papers adding information to the database: Authors, Citations, Papers, Bibliography and Abstract (if not copyrighted)
With that information there is a ton of things one could do. Production timelines, self citation metrics, reciprocal citations, … I have many many ideas, but first I need the database and parser.
I will start with my field (astrophysics) as I more familiar with it and seems quite easy (NASA has a complete database that produces XML output).
The NASA database can return XML format ready for parsing. This is, for example, the return for myself
The funny thing is that it includes links to the paper pages, so with just few searches you can start filling a queue of queries and parsing the whole thing and adding info to the DBs.
These are the databases
AUTHOR DB
Name: Name of person. String
Aliases: Posible Aliases. String Array
URL: ADS webpage. String
P_URL: Personal URL. String
email: emails. String array
UniqueId: Integer
Papers IDs: Integer array (order not important)
Picture: Picture. Image
PAPER DB
Title: Full Title. String
URL: URL for online paper. String
URL_free: URL for online free access paper. String
Publisher: Peer review journal code. String
UniqueID: BIBcode
Authors: AUTHOR DB UniqueID in order of appearance. Integer Array
Date: Date of publication. Integer
Date_sub: Submitted date. Integer
Bibliography: PAPER UniqueID. Integer Array
Abstract: Text. Text
Keywords: Keyword. String Array
Possible outputs
1-Show a timeline with a line when paper is published. Bar Length is (author_position / number of authors).
2-Show a timeline of citations, divided by number of co-authors.
3-Calculate stander indexes.
4-Create static webpages for each Author, with ranked collaborator.
5-Anything you think could help
Project is Creative Commons Attribution. If you can help,send me an email, I might even be able to pay you some money for your time.
