Abstract
As part of a larger project to understand the publishing choices of UVA Health authors and support open access publishing, a team from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library analyzed an open data set from Europe PMC, which includes metadata from PubMed records. We used the Europe PMC REST API to search for articles published in 2017–2020 with “University of Virginia” in the author affiliation field. Subsequently, we parsed the JSON metadata in Python and used Streamlit to create a data visualization from our public GitHub repository. At present, this shows the relative proportions of open access versus subscription-only articles published by UVA Health authors. Although subscription services like Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions allow users to do similar analyses, we believe this is a novel approach to doing this type of bibliometric research with open data and open source tools.
Highlights
As part of a larger project to understand the publishing choices of University of Virginia (UVA) Health authors and support open access publishing, a team from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library analyzed an open data set from Europe PMC, which includes metadata from PubMed records
We used the Europe PMC REST application programming interface (API) to search for articles published in 2017– 2020 with “University of Virginia” in the author affiliation field
We parsed the JSON metadata in Python and used Streamlit to create a data visualization from our public GitHub repository. This shows the relative proportions of open access versus subscription-only articles published by UVA Health authors
Summary
Analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using open data, Python, and Streamlit As part of a larger project to understand the publishing choices of UVA Health authors and support open access publishing, a team from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library analyzed an open data set from Europe PMC, which includes metadata from PubMed records. We used the Europe PMC REST API to search for articles published in 2017– 2020 with “University of Virginia” in the author affiliation field.
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