Computerized evaluation of publication effectiveness using application programming interfaces of citation databases

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the computerized evaluation of publication effectiveness using accessible API of citation bases. The review of scientific sources indicates that the use of API of such well-known companies and agencies as Elsevier, Clarivate Analytics, Crossref as applicable to international, including domestic, citation indexes plays an important role when creating such systems. The main aim is the analysis of publication activity not only of an organization but also of its divisions. The results of such analysis allow developing effective directions of a higher educational institution policy to motivate for research, creating the necessary reports in the formalized form in the time mode, approximated to the real one, upon the requests. The global analytical citation systems, such as Scopus, Web of Science and Russian Science Citation Index, have such a disadvantage that they often contain the distorted information about the authors’ affiliation for the reasons beyond their control. This feature is conditioned by the lack of connection between the databases of publications and the actual place of work of the authors. The solution of such a problem depends on the integration degree of the data obtained for publications into the information network of the higher educational institution. As a particular case, the example of the program module aggregating metadata of articles from three bases, including the use of Elsevier API and allowing the calculation of the actual complex score of the publication effectiveness was developed. The research demonstrated that the actual value of this score significantly differs from the desired one, which is calculated based on the data of the domestic scientific citation index.