Andrew,
most altmetrics services (ImpactStory, Plum Analytics, PLOS ALM,
altmetric.com
<http://altmetric.com/>) track DOI mentions in Wikipedia. They are often limited to
the English Wikipedia only and rely on the MediaWiki search API as a data source. Their
approach is also different from ours: they match an exact occurrence of a given DOI (which
is relatively straightforward) as opposed to extracting all DOI mentions (more
challenging). I created a draft project page on enwiki [1] to aggregate all information
about altmetrics data, research and services related to English Wikipedia: contributions
are welcome.
Finally, allow me to be pedantic and point out that
altmetric.com
<http://altmetric.com/> is not “Altmetrics”:
altmetric.com
<http://altmetric.com/> is a proprietary service by Macmillan that applies specific
metrics, primarily focused on social media, to scholarly articles. “altmetrics” is the
name of the broader concept, the movement and the scholarship behind it.
Dario
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:WP:Altmetrics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:WP:Altmetrics>
On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:34 AM, Andrew Gray
<andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk <mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>> wrote:
On the subject of DOIs, I just spotted this (related) announcement
from Altmetrics:
http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
<http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/>
"We capture [Wikipedia use] as a mention and add it to the details
page for that output. Users can then click on the heading to be taken
to the original Wikipedia article, on the username of the person who
wrote the mention to see their profile on Wikipedia, and on the date
stamp to view the edit record for that article. ... Because we’re
looking for lots of different identifiers and have some constraints
around auditability – every mention we collect has to have an author
and a timestamp – we wrote our own system to get the data out in the
format we need but we’re hoping to share tips, approaches and data
with others in the community."
So looks like they've independently created a similar method, which -
reading between the lines - is picking up DOIs as well as PMIDs, etc.
Andrew.
On 3 February 2015 at 17:28, Dario Taraborelli
<dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Nemo
The
dataset currently includes the first known occurrence of a PMID or PMCID citation in an
English Wikipedia article and the associated revision metadata, based on the most recent
complete content dump of English Wikipedia.
Do you accepted patches for inclusion of other wikis? The easiest way to include all
Wikimedia projects is probably to use the external links table, we can see how big a
difference there is.
we definitely welcome patches and pull requests [1]. This is our current priority list
(subject to other priorities unrelated to this project):
1. add other identifiers (DOIs are next)
2. include other languages / projects
3. generate recurring reports (e.g. once a month)
Aaron, does that sound about right? Also note that other people on this list (Max,
Daniel) are working on real-time reporting of DOI citations in collaboration with
CrossRef.
D
[1]
https://github.com/halfak/Extract-scholarly-article-citations-from-Wikipedia
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