jasonpriem

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   by jasonpriem 2y ago

   OpenAlex | REMOTE | https://openalex.org | senior frontend eng. & product owner We're a small nonprofit on a mission inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria: to create a universal database of research information.
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   Thanks for the kudos! I'm very glad we've been able to help out!
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   Agreed, the author disambiguation isn't quiet as good as Scopus'...they have a bit of a head start on us. But we're improving it quickly. Thanks for the suggestion about the data dump. A lot of that weight is abstracts, which
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   To be clear, this is a project isn't affiliated with SMU, they just did the blog post...it's from a nonprofit called OurResearch (source: I'm a cofounder). We did have some good conversations with folks at Meta before they cl
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   If you go that route, you may also want to check out these community-contributed Python and R libraries: https://docs.openalex.org/api#client-libraries
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   We emphasize the API because imho a well-documented, high-throughput API is something really lacking in the ecosystem right now. Dealing with a dataset this size (200M works, 200M authors) is a pain, especially since many end users for this
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   by jasonpriem 4y ago

   Jason here, cofounder of OurResearch, the nonprofit behind OpenAlex. I appreciate everyone's feedback! Happy to answer any questions.
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   Show HN: Read science papers for free...it's sci-hub, but legal(unpaywall.org)

   26 points by jasonpriem 10y ago|4 comments
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   by jasonpriem 10y ago

   Hi, one of the devs here! If you want to see a cool example of Unpaywall in action, check out the Nature paper [1] published last month about TRAPPIST-1, the nearby solar system with seven earth-sized planets. Paywalled on Nature, but Unpay
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    Show HN: Browser extension to bypass paywalls on research papers, legally(unpaywall.org)

    12 points by jasonpriem 10y ago|0 comments
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    by jasonpriem 10y ago

    I love that they're using actual network data to build this list, not just a "who's who" based on someone's general impressions. There is so much potential in applying this kind of network analysis to the GitHub dat
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    by jasonpriem 11y ago

    Yes, agreed...we've had lots of requests to add other languages. And as you say, the growing popularity of GitHub gives us all kinds of cool data even when there's no central package manager for the language. In fact, we're m
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    by jasonpriem 11y ago

    Yep, we chose CRAN for the MVP, since it's the main R package host. But adding other sources is the plan, and Bioconductor is at the top of that list for R.
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    Show HN: Tracking the impact of research software(blog.impactstory.org)

    12 points by jasonpriem 11y ago|0 comments
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    by jasonpriem 12y ago

    It is indeed interesting, and as you suspect it has attracted some attention. Check out "nanopubs,"( http://nanopub.org ), or Simon Buckingham Shum's very cool work on ScholOnto ( http://projects.kmi.open
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    by jasonpriem 12y ago

    And if you'd like a yet more comprehensive list of these "comment on scientific papers" sites, here's a community-curated list of 'em I started...there's around 50 listed now I think: https://docs.go
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    Assessing the impact of academic software on GitHub(blog.impactstory.org)

    2 points by jasonpriem 14y ago|0 comments