sosia: Automatic author matching in Scopus on-line¶
sosia is a Python library match authors in the Scopus database, using the pybliometrics package.
Installation¶
Install sosia from PyPI:
$ pip install sosia
or directly from the GitHub repository (may be unstable):
$ pip install git+https://github.com/sosia-dev/sosia
To access the Scopus database using pybliometrics, you need to obtain credentials. Install and configure pybliometrics before using sosia.
Example¶
sosia performs a series of queries in the Scopus database using the pybliometrics package. After configuring your local pybliometrics (providing access credentials and eventually setting cache directories), you can use sosia:
>>> import sosia
>>> sosia.create_fields_sources_list() # Necessary only once
>>> sosia.create_cache() # Necessary only once
>>> stefano = sosia.Original(55208373700, 2017) # Scopus ID and year
>>> stefano.define_search_sources() # Sources similiar to scientist
>>> stefano.define_search_group() # Authors publishing in similar sources
>>> matches = stefano.find_matches() # List of namedtuples
>>> matches[0]
Match(ID='53164702100', name='Sapprasert, Koson', first_year=2011,
num_coauthors=7, num_publications=6, country='Norway', language='eng',
reference_sim=0.0212, abstract_sim=0.1695)
Full reference:
Original(scientist, year[, year_margin, …]) |
Class to represent a scientist for which we want to find a control group. |
