This is a submission to the Force 2018 Conference taking place on 11-12 October 2018 in Montreal. It was submitted shortly prior to the submission deadline on May 1, 2018.
- Research Techniques
- Publishing
- Data Publishing
- Global Perspectives
- Research and Schol Comms Policy
- General - Scholarly Communication
- Other:
Research published over the last week
Please supply one paragraph describing your talk and how it relates to the theme of Engagement. (Please also declare any conflicts of interest. )
With thousands of research publications coming out each day, it is hard to keep or even get an overview. I will provide a guided tour around research from various fields that was published over the week prior to the session, highlighting (i) how to find such publications, (ii) what can be learned from them in such a short time span, (iii) how to engage with them and (iv) lessons that authors, readers, publishers and others involved in scholarly communication can draw from the experience. The talk will be given on the basis of https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/FORCE-2018-research-published-last-week.md .
This talk is closely related to the one at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/FORCE-2018-research-performed-last-week.md on research performed last week, and I would have strongly prefered the two to be scheduled back to back in the same room (either before a session covering scholarly communication more broadly, or before a break), but that other submission did not make it into the program.
- Why focus on "last week"?
- Which definition of "last week"?
- Research published over any week in the past
- Research formally published over the last week
- Research informally published over the last week
- with notes on research performed last week
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22last+7+days%22%5BPDat%5D
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22last+7+days%22%5BEDat%5D
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=(%22viruses%22%5BMeSH+Terms%5D+OR+%22viruses%22%5BAll+Fields%5D+OR+%22virus%22%5BAll+Fields%5D)+AND+(%222018%2F10%2F03%22%5BPDat%5D+%3A+%222018%2F10%2F10%22%5BPDat%5D)&cmd=DetailsSearch
- Specifically for NCBI -- Automated search with myNCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/howto/receive-search-results/
- Here is a neat large-scale way to search for stuff: https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/classes/edirect-for-pubmed/materials.html
- EDirect is a command line implementation of the NCBI EUtilities, an API for a number of NCBI Databases.
- keyword search
- https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%28%28doi%20AND%2010%29%20OR%20doi.org%20OR%20pmid%20OR%20pmcid%20OR%20pubmed%20OR%20%28ncbi%20AND%20pmc%29%20OR%20arxiv%29%20AND%20%28published%20OR%20new%20OR%20paper%20OR%20journal%20OR%20article%20OR%20preprint%20OR%20today%20OR%20yesterday%20OR%20week%29
- lists
- https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/lists/labwatching
- dedicated accounts
- via ORCID: https://www.google.com/search?num=100&ei=z4C5W63BPIKCwgSKmZuoCA&q=site%3Aorcid.org+%22oct+2018%22+doi
- Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_ylo=2018&as_yhi=2018&q=%22october+2018%22&btnG=
- Today's new taxa: http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/static/newToday.html
Here's the query for research published this week last year. Adapting it to this year is left as an exercise to the reader.
SELECT DISTINCT
?work
?title
?date_time
# ?topiclabel
WHERE {
VALUES (?earliest) {("2017-10-03T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime)}
VALUES (?latest) {("2017-10-10T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime)}
?work wdt:P577 ?date_time .
hint:Prior hint:rangeSafe true .
FILTER (?date_time >= ?earliest)
FILTER (?date_time <= ?latest)
?work wdt:P1476 ?title.
{ ?work wdt:P356 [] } UNION { ?work wdt:P698 []} UNION { ?work wdt:P932 []}
# ?work wdt:P921 ?topic.
# ?topic rdfs:label ?topiclabel.
# FILTER(LANG(?topiclabel) = "en").
# VALUES ?topic { wd:Q11081 wd:Q7892 }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?date_time)
LIMIT 10000
- Try it!
- visualize results in a word cloud, e.g. via https://www.wordclouds.com/
- Wikidata query for authors who published papers between 3 and 10 October 2018
- Scholia profile for one of them
- Scholia topic profile for drinking water
- Scholia organization profile for McGill University
- Scholia profile for an individual publication — note the "Supports the following statement(s)" table at the bottom, which gives the number of statements in Wikidata for which this publication has been used as a reference. This provides a direct measure of impact of the publication.
- using MeSH terms for topic annotation on Wikidata: SuLab/GeneWikiCentral#32
- weekly: myADS Personal Notification Service for arXiv
- daily: RSS feed for the above http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_myads2/all?id=324115336&db_key=DAILY_PRE&rss=2.1
- https://twitter.com/sgclabnotebooks
- https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/lists/labwatching
- https://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
- http://openzika.ufg.br/experiments/
- https://zika.labkey.com/project/home/begin.view?
- https://www.protocols.io/
- https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis/wiki
- https://wikibase-registry.wmflabs.org/
- Twitter
- lists
- hashtags
- search
- Google alerts
- generic search
- Google Scholar
- library workflows
- subject librarian/ liaison
- Discover tools
- systems librarian
- PIDs, e.g. ORCID
- problems:
- few researchers have ORCIDS
- those who do often provide no or no public information in their ORCID profile
- if ORCID profiles have public content, that often does not contain structured information (e.g. DOIs for papers)
- problems:
- PIDs, e.g. ORCID
- RSS
- using RSS/Atom feeds in Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/support/feeds
- feed reader example: https://feedly.com/i/welcome
- PubCrawler
- LSHTM
- Not mentioned yet: journal TOC alerts
- Questions
- gaming the metrics via publication date
- revert workflows altmetric
- go to a resource, check their altmetrics and engage on social media accordingly
- goal post
- ORCIDSs making things simpler?
- tools like SourceMD (aka ORCIDator) allow to harvest information from ORCID for resue in Wikidata
- Protocols
During the session, we made heavy use of online resources, and I tried to keep track of the main ones by leaving the respective browser tabs open. Those open tabs have now been incorporated in the notes here.