Goal:

Replace the previous ABM i.e. Annual Bibliometric Monitoring / Årlig Bibliometrisk Uppföljning at KTH

Summary:

Our previous demo meeting was held 2020-05-26. After summer vacations we have worked on Sprints 17 to 23 (current).

The ABM services at KTH have been operational since the last demo meeting, with some maintenance and updates during autumn, for example involving server upgrades and rotation of certificates.

• Introduction to current ABM for new attendees
• Background for new author based POC (Proof Of Concept)
• Demonstration of author based reporting for KTH divisions
  • Examples
    • A few divisions (sv. avdelningar)
    • A few departments (sv. institutioner) versus current ABM
  • Some observations and explanations of differences

• Organization based = organizational affiliation when publication was written
  • Usually used for reporting etc
  • Publications directly tied to organizational unit
• Author based = publications made by currently employed researchers at the unit
  • Usually used for prospective analysis, current “brain power”
• Aim in this case is still reporting for KTH publications
  • Fetch employees from HR system / KTH APIs and collect their publications
  • Can be strongly influenced by staff turnover, and interact with staff groups

• Overview for KTH Divisions

• Examples

  • DIVISION OF ELECTRIC POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: “j/jj/jjn”
  • DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: “j/jh/jhs”
  • DIVISION OF SPACE AND PLASMA PHYSICS: “j/jj/jje”
  • NUCLEAR ENGINEERING: “s/sh/shh”
  • MATERIALS AND NANOPHYSICS: “s/sk/skq”

• Examples - these can be compared against current ABM
  • Electrical engineering: “j/jj”
  • Computer Science: “j/jh”
  • Applied Physics: “s/sk”

• Classify which are research “divisions”
• Evaluate differences between models
  • Trends across time
  • Staff categories and staff turnover
  • Interaction with length of author lists
• Better understand HR/UG data
• Can people (and therefore publications) become ‘’lost’’ in administative subunits?

• Web of Science data (Clarivate) used for ABM/ÅBU

• Scopus data (Elsevier) has been acquired

  • Better coverage of conference proceedings
  • Comparison of coverage Scopus vs WoS (2012–2019); download here
  • Plans to integrate in existing ABM app as complement to WoS

• Department of Computer Science

• All efforts are available at KTH-Library@GitHub

• Further use of kthapi R package has been the basis for the author data in the POC

• A new R package semanticscholar allows for experimenting with data integration against this data source which provides open data for publications from many researchers at KTH.

• API for public data from ABM

  • https://bibliometrics.lib.kth.se/testapi/__swagger__/

• API for author based data (BETA)

• we have separated operational ABM services from other KTHB Bibliometrics services and have allowed external users without KTH accounts to log in via the use of https://auth0.com

• we have initiated a migration away from Travis - a continuous integration service provider - to using GitHub Actions.

• we have upgraded the software stack and server environment (and rotated certificates and API keys)

• we have continued to work with the KTH Web team on aligning with the KTH style for web applications

Please provide your input!

• Questions from the Zoom chat
• Suggestions and comments
• Future directions

Thank you for attending!