Abstract
Online accounts to keep track of scientific publications, such as Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) or Google Scholar, can be time consuming to maintain and synchronize. Furthermore, the open access status of publications is often not easily accessible, hindering potential opening of closed publications. To lessen the burden of managing personal profiles, we developed a R shiny app that allows publication lists from multiple platforms to be retrieved and consolidated, as well as interactive exploration and comparison of publication profiles. A live version can be found at pubassistant.ch.
Highlights
Given the increasing number of both researchers and publications as well as publishing modes,[1,2] it becomes a challenge to identify and consolidate all publications from a single author
Updates to the Introduction include: more theoretical background on the issue of name disambiguation was added, the important role of Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and DOI is better highlighted, imprecisely-worded statements were updated or removed, a description of similar tools was added, and all of this was put into perspective compared to our application
Various options to filter the data according to open access (OA) status, year and source (ORCID, Google Scholar, etc.) are available with the possibility to remove or show duplicates
Summary
Digital Science, London, This article is included in the RPackage gateway. Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. Updates to the Introduction include: more theoretical background on the issue of name disambiguation was added, the important role of ORCID and DOI is better highlighted, imprecisely-worded statements (mainly about capabilities of Dimensions) were updated or removed, a description of similar tools was added, and all of this was put into perspective compared to our application. The fact that web-scraping is done to retrieve publications from Google Scholar is highlighted and a more detailed description of the used fuzzy matching of publications is added. Any further responses from the reviewers can be found at the end of the article
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