PublicationHarvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

Pierre Azoulay, Andrew Stellman and Joshua Graff Zivin

No 12039, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each researcher. Using these names along with a user-specified search query, PublicationHarvester generates yearly publication counts, optionally weighted by Journal Impact Factors. These counts are further broken-down by order on the authorship list (first, last, second, next-to-last, middle) and by publication type (clinical trials, regular journal articles, reviews, letters/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) assigned by the National Library of Medicine to each publication indexed by Medline. The software, source code, and user manual can be downloaded at http://www.stellman-greene.com/PublicationHarvester/

JEL-codes: O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
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Published as Azoulay, Pierre, Andrew Stellman and Joshua Graff Zivin. "Publication-Harvester: An Open-Source Software Tool For Science Policy Research," Research Policy, 2006, v35(7,Sep), 970-974.

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