chemrxiv-dashboard / chemrxiv-dashboard.github.io

Webpage for the ChemRxiv dashboard

Welcome to the ChemRxiv Dashboard

This project provides an unofficial dashboard to the ChemRxiv preprint server, based on the data publicly available from the Open Engage API.

The code

Code requires Python 3.6 or later. Data is downloaded from the Open Engage API with download_metadata.py. The dashboard is generated from the data by generate_dashboard.py.

ChemRxiv metadata

The metadata about ChemRxiv preprints is stored in two files:

• data/allchemrxiv.json holds a list of all the preprints, pairing their internal identifier with their DOI
• data/allchemrxiv_data.json.bz2 contains the complete metadata (compressed)

That metadata is under the CC0 licence (Creative Commons “Public Domain Dedication”).

Additional metadata from the Crossref public API is also stored:

• data/doi_journal.json contains a list of published DOIs and the associated journal name

That metadata is not subject to copyright. According to Crossref: “the data can be treated as facts from members. The data is not subject to copyright, and you may use it for any purpose.”

chemrxiv-dashboard.github.io's Issues

API down

Hi,

Super cool project! Can you confirm that the chemrxiv api is down? Your git commit history shows that the automatic daily updates were stopped on September 15. I just tried to access the chemrxiv api (for the first time in months), but https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles?institution=259 yields an empty list.

So I was wondering whether this is related to the stoppage of your daily updates.

Cool project!

Hi, thanks for this great dashboard for ChemRxiv. I didn't realize that the ChemRxiv API also returns the published DOI. If I understand the code correctly, you then used those DOIs to query Crossref to get the journal names? Very cool use of the APIs. Thanks again.

Something interesting that might be worth adding is the number of preprints that have been published (i.e., a percent of preprints that have been published in journals). I'll try and experiment with that once I have more time.

Vin