On 2015-02-11 at 10:09:59 +0000, Christian Soeller wrote: > Hi both, > > It would probably be nice to come up with a few approaches to calculate some > metrics from this and similar info. Maybe somebody really clever can come up > with a perl/pdl script to automatically 'scrape' the info from the relevant > servers?
As for scraping, any of these may work: - <https://metacpan.org/pod/Bib::Tools#add_google_search>, - <https://code.google.com/p/google-scholar-perl/>, - or my own <https://github.com/zmughal/p5-Biblio-Document-Fetch>. :-) It seems the only difference between Bib::Tools and mine is that mine doesn't try to resolve citations using CrossRef like Bib::Tools does. Regards, - Zaki Mughal > Cheers, > CS > > > > On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 9:51 AM, Piero Ranalli wrote: > > > 2015-02-11 9:04 GMT+02:00, Karl Glazebrook <kglazebr...@swin.edu.au > > (mailto:kglazebr...@swin.edu.au)>: > > > Do we have any estimate of the impact/reach of PDL? > > > > > > Has anyone tried a paper count? > > > > Hi > > > > if you mean citations to Glazebrook & Economou 1997, The Perl Journal, > > 5, 5, than the Thomson-Reuters Web of science is returning a total of > > 14 citations, only 13 of which however have a record in their "Web of > > science core collections". All these papers are in astrophysics, which > > looks a bit suspect, but I can't find any way to select other fields. > > Three more citations appear when searching for Dr Dobb's journal (one > > paper on optics, two in bioinformatics). > > > > Besides the PDL paper, people may just be citing the PDL website. The > > NASA ADS database returns 47 records with an occurrence of > > "pdl.perl.org (http://pdl.perl.org)" in the full text. > > > > > > I think the main difficulty is that neither the Perl Journal, nor Dr > > Dobb's (which published the same article, is it correct?) are indexed, > > so there not a proper record in the databases for the PDL paper. This > > means that if search for the PDL paper, you won't find it; but you can > > see it listed in the references list of a paper citing it. > > So in Web of science you must find one paper citing PDL, get the > > references, find PDL in the list, and ask for citations of that -- > > that's how I did. > > > > > > > > Piero > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Perldl mailing list > > Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu (mailto:Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu) > > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
