wcmcits/reciter-scopus repository overview

⁠ReCiter-Scopus-Retrieval-Tool

Github - https://github.com/wcmc-its/ReCiter-Scopus-Retrieval-Tool⁠

Authorized users may download records from the Scopus database. This application presents an easier to use interface for developers who use Scopus. It corrects some errors in Scopus including cases where it duplicates authors.

This application was written to work with ReCiter⁠, a tool for disambiguating articles written in PubMed and also indexed in Scopus. However, this application can work as a standalone service. In testing, it does help improve accuracy by several percentage points, but Scopus is not necessary to run ReCiter.

⁠Advantages over using Scopus API alone

This tool has several advantages over using the Scopus API alone:

• The Scopus API outputs data as XML while the ReCiter Scopus Retrieval Tool outputs data as JSON, a format which is easier for developers to use.
• The Scopus API sometimes creates redundant author objects or otherwise doesn’t properly assign sequence numbers to authors. This tool addresses both problems.

⁠Prerequisites

• Java 11
• Latest version of Maven. To install Maven navigate to the directory where ReCiter Scopus Retrieval Tool will be installed, execute brew install maven and then mvn clean install If you want to use Java 8 then update <java.version>1.8</java.version> in pom.xml⁠

It is not necessary to install ReCiter in order to use the API.