sosia: Automatic author matching in Scopus on-line¶
sosia is a Python library match authors in the Scopus database, using the scopus package.
Installation¶
Install scopus 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 scopus, you need to obtain credentials. Install and configure scopus before using sosia.
Example¶
>>> import sosia
>>> sosia.create_fields_sources_list() # 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='42661166900', name='Fosaas, Morten', first_year=2011,
num_coauthors=4, num_publications=3, country='Norway',
reference_sim=0.0238, abstract_sim=0.0202)
Full reference:
Original(scientist, year[, year_margin, …]) |
Class to represent a scientist for which we want to find a control group. |
